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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.dcom,net.video
Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro
Message-ID: <338@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 10:48:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 10:48:43 1985
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In article <777@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>It should be pointed out that monitoring telephone conversations
>from either terrestrial or satellite links would almost certainly
>be construed, under current law, as wiretapping.  This is,
>I believe, a federal crime (probably a felony), and not to be 
>taken lightly.
>
>--Lauren--

Fortunately it is not wiretapping.  Since it is on the open airwaves,
a different set of rules take over.  You can receive the signal, you can
listen to it, but you cannot tell anyone the contents of what you heard.
It is exactly like listening to police/fire.  You can, but don't tell
anyone the contents of the communications.
-- 

Mr. Video   {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown