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On 10/4/2014 1:05 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:01:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2014 11:07:03 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:21:44 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote: ...integrity: Marriott fined $600,000 for jamming guests' Wi-Fi inShare13 Friday - 10/3/2014, 7:20pm ET SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Marriott International will pay a $600,000 fine for jamming conference attendees' own Wi-Fi networks at its Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, forcing them to pay hefty prices to use the hotel's own connection. It is interesting that every Marriott we have stayed in had free WiFi for the guests. Must be a Gaylord thing. This is where the consumers can vote with their wallet. If a few companies pulled their conventions, Marriott would fold. I do agree that it is illegal to jam radio traffic tho,. (the same reason your techy neighbor would get in trouble for jamming drone signals). The whole area of cell phone jammers is working it;s way through the courts as we speak. It will eventually get down to property rights vs the right to use the government's radio waves. A friend in California, back in the old days, was among a group who built antennas that could receive a movie service that was broadcast, for pay, to customers. They were, in effect, stealing the movie service using that old rule that if it was broadcast over the air, you could receive it. The company providing the service sued, one of the guys that had built his own antenna that had deep pockets went to court, and he lost. All the folks with the renegade antennas had to take them down. They had that in DC in the 70s on Channel 50. I built the bootleg box but it never really worked that well. All they were doing at that time was wiping out a sync pulse and burying it in the sound track. The box I built was with a scrap tuner out of an old TV. The best ones used a digital tuner from a Sony or something. It was a $100 part wholesale when a TV was $150 The movies were crap anyway. Generally they can only enforce a law against building and selling the equipment. Simple reception of unscrambled signal cases have gone either way and I am not sure any ever made it to an appellate court. I do know the lobbyists for the satellite companies got special laws protecting themselves but I am not sure any of them were ever tested either. They dealt with it by just making their encryption so hard to beat that it was not worth it. One of my neighbors was playing that game with Direct TV for years. It finally got to the point that he had to log onto a Chinese web site in the middle of a show to get the new key and the lag time was several minutes before they had generated it. I think they were changing keys 10-15 times a day or something. I don;t know a lot about it because it always sounded like more work than it was worth. Yeah, simply receiving a broadcast signal is not illegal. In fact the FCC says you can't ban people from doing that. But if the broadcast data is scrambled and you build or buy your own "box" to de-scramble the content, then you are defrauding or stealing from the service provider. That's illegal. |
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