On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:45:11 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


http://blog.pff.org/archives/Hale%20...0Liability.pdf

Interesting. There was nothing in there about the reception of wireless
signals.

To wit: What if you just wanted to monitor a broadcast signal - similar
to, let's say, listening to a police scanner? It's fairly well
established law, both domestically and internationally, that once the
signal is in the "ether", it belongs to everyone.

I remember you mentioning that about radar. Seems reasonable to me.
However, they did have a bit in there about the Electronic Communications
Privacy Act that sounded rather ominous.

That could keep lawyers busy for about a zillion years. :)