Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!pollux!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: pcf@galadriel.british-telecom.co.uk (Pete French) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: FCC Orders Radio Station to Stop Phone Pranks Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 15:40:17 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 29 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 347, message 6 of 9 In a recent article tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes... >Incredible, isn't it? Three complaints and a lawsuit later, the FCC >are piddling around with $5000 fines in Chicago. In New York, they send >boats out to international water to destroy transmitters and sieze >persons and property. (Technically this is termed "piracy". See a >lawyer before you try it yourself.) Interesting you should mention this...about 3 weeks ago a joint Dutch/English force attacked a "Pirate" radio station in international waters, smashed up the transmitters, seized albums, injured some of the crew and staff in the process and the forcibly towed away the ship. (This info is extracted from newspaper articles + "earwitnesses" who were listening to it at the time. The reason for this - the station was causing "Interference". This is a bit implausible since it has been there over 25 years - you would have thought that they would have got around to raiding them before now if they had really been worried about the emissions. The ships owners (who are Canadian) are aparrently sueing the Dutch/british governments for piracy and have promised to have the station back on air by the autumn. I have not heard about the New York incedent - what was this ? -Pete. -Pete French. | British Telecom Research Labs. | "The carefree days are distant now, Martlesham Heath, East Anglia. | I wear my memories like a shroud..." All my own thoughts (of course) | -SIOUXSIE