Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Piet van Oostrum Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Licenses for Television in the UK Message-ID: <8718@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Jun 90 16:27:37 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Piet van Oostrum Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 417, Message 3 of 12 In article <8677@accuvax.nwu.edu>, cellar!martin@bellcore (Martin Harriss) writes: |They (who *is* they these days? I don't thing it's BT) will target an |area of the country where they want to do some enforcement. The |detector vans are sent there, and there is a local publicity campaign |sometime before the event. The non-renewal records are consulted, and |the detector vans are sent by the houses of people who have not |renewed. If a television is found operating there, the owner receives |a knock on the door. In the Netherlands we have the same system. A few years ago there was an April Fools joke on the TV where they told that a new system was invented to detect non-licenced TV's by their radiation. The only way to prevent detection was to wrap your TV in alumin(i)um foil. Guess what happened. Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')