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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Use of broadcast material - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 00:23:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 00:23:46 1984
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uokvax!emjej    Mar 25 21:16:00 1984

/***** uokvax:net.followup / azure!billp / 10:47 pm  Mar 22, 1984 */
>>    Whenever someone broadcasts something on the airwaves, everyone
>>    has a right to recieve and use it.   Period.

Does that include private conversations over wireless telephones?
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The Secrecy of Communications act of 1934 says that it's against the
law to *disclose the contents of* non-broadcast transmissions. It
doesn't say it's against the law to listen to them.

(So how are the pay-TV folks prosecuting people with dishes? Good
question, say I; I'd like to hear about that, too.)

						James Jones