Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site frog.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Loss of fredom in communications! Message-ID: <285@frog.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 11:11:22 EDT Article-I.D.: frog.285 Posted: Thu Aug 29 11:11:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Sep-85 12:26:41 EDT References: <1040@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA Lines: 28 >> From: Keith F. Lynch >> To: Security at RUTGERS.ARPA >> Re: Watching TV >> I don't know if anyone noticed, but a few weeks ago the Supreme Court >> threw away a right that Americans have had since day one. >> It has always been the case that everyone had the right to receive any >> signal being transmitted on any frequency using any kind of receiver. You >> didn't always have the right to do whatever you wanted with these signals, >> such as tell anyone about them, but you could always listen to them (or >> watch them) alone in the privacy of your home. >> But now the court has ruled that people are breaking the law if they >> watch sattelite TV that is intended to be charged for, even if it not >> scrambled. >> Comments? > The implications of this ruling set the way for making it a crime to monitor > radio signals unless the sender gives express permission to do so. I > suppose this could lead to making it a crime to even own certain receiving > equipment! > Simple solution. The Supreme Court Justices are, at this very moment, intercepting those self same transmissions (salt water conducts), and therefore they should be charged and put to death under their very own decision... -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA You have violated Robots Rules of Order, and will be asked to leave The Future!