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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: "broadcasting"
Message-ID: <208@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Dec-83 21:44:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 30 21:44:39 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jan-84 02:16:28 EST
Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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It is misleading to suggest that it is legal to receive ANY and ALL
transmissions.  The key is the legal definition of "broadcasting",
which does not have the same meaning as "transmission".  For example,
it is illegal to listen to point-to-point telephone microwave
transmissions (it is considered to be wiretapping), and in the last
couple of years prohibitions for NON-point-to-point operations such
as MDS and STV (scrambled) services have been enacted.

--Lauren--