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echo: scanners
to: DAVID LAWSON
from: BUD JAMISON
date: 1997-02-25 06:20:00
subject: stupid laws uk/can/usa

DL> Check the laws. That law is unconstitutional. It goes right along with
DL> the laws on radar detectors. I seem to remember something about "any USA
DL> citizen being able to listen to ANY transmitted signal as long is it is
DL> not used for personal gain".
You remember INCORRECTLY!
The PREVIOUS law, the Communications Act of 1934, put no restrictions on what 
you could listen to.  That particular law has now been superceded by the 
ECPA, the TDDRA, and a few other changes.
You can NOT _legally_ listen to cellular phones, OR cordless phones, OR 
studio-transmitter links, or several other things.
And if you think it's 'cool' to ignore the law, just HOW cool will it be when 
the Federal Government completely outlaws scanners?  Because THAT is what 
will happen, if we act as if we can pick and choose WHAT laws we want to 
obey, and what ones we want to disobey.
... Hi, I'm Chip. Micro Chip. Eight-o-three-eighty-six!
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