"TIM RICHARDSON -> ROSS SAUER"  wrote in
news:13205$POL_DISORDER{at}JamNNTPd:

 EH>> Being an amateur radio operator, I am subject to many regulations
 TR> on EH> the very "airwaves" I use. Public my foot.


 RS>> At low power the airwaves are nearly unrestricted.



 TR> Many years ago there used to be what was known as `pirate stations'.
 TR> They were stations that operated either off-shore or across
 TR> international borders, and paid no fees, had no license, no assigned
 TR> frequency, and no restriction on programing content (that is to say
 TR> `no policing of propriety or decorum in what was broadcast'). They
 TR> just broadcast on any frequency they felt like, and there was little
 TR> if anything anyone could do about them.


 TR> They played music that no performing artist recieved any royalty or
 TR> use payment for, no government could regulate them for content.


 TR> The huge expansion of Television channels, and some other things, made
 TR> `pirate stations' obsolete. They slowly but steadily faded away. There
 TR> might be a few around still, but I've not heard of one for many a
 TR> year.

I read about those radio stations.
Operated at illegal power levels, and as you say, had few or no
restrictions on what they broadcast.

I read about one station in Mexico like that.
Wasn't the song "Mexican Radio" about stations like this?

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