Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds 348
Thundgelmir writes "Yahoo news has an article about how pirate radio is taking on the FCC. It describes the growing trend of low-power FM stations, and their crusade to be heard across the country and around the internet." From the article: "Over four days, a dozen men and women shyly bumped shoulders as they studied schematics and tinkered with romex connectors, resistors, microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors — the stuff of illegal radio stations. 'We're not stealing anything. We're claiming something that's rightfully ours,' he says. His goal is to create FM radio stations faster than the FCC can shut them down ... 'It's always been our position that if enough people go on the air with their stations, the FCC will be overwhelmed and unable to respond.'"
Dupe. (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone love pirates! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh noes! They've got connectors! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rights? (Score:5, Funny)
And that have commercial value.
Millions of consumers have receivers in their homes/works/cars that operate with transmissions on those frequencies, so the realist in me says the FCC is chasing them because commercial radio pushes them to.
Meanwhile, the tinfoil in my hat says it's about Big Brother restricting public broadcast and free communication... oh, and keeping the little guy down, man.
Re:Pump up the Volume (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rights? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rights? (Score:2, Funny)
Last time I checked one needed only a transmitter.
KFG