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timbo

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a lot of people including Howard Stern are saying that the pirates are "stealing" the sirius signal and rebroadcasting it on terrestrial radio. How does howard know they aren't paying the 12.99 a month for the signal? Am I reading into a statement too much at face value? Whenever I hear someone say this I think of how people used to steal satellite Tv by reprogramming the cards.
 
> a lot of people including Howard Stern are saying that the
> pirates are "stealing" the sirius signal and rebroadcasting
> it on terrestrial radio. How does howard know they aren't
> paying the 12.99 a month for the signal? Am I reading into a
> statement too much at face value? Whenever I hear someone
> say this I think of how people used to steal satellite Tv by
> reprogramming the cards.
>

They are paying for the signal, but they do not have the right to broadcast it over public airwaves.
 
> > a lot of people including Howard Stern are saying that the
>
> > pirates are "stealing" the sirius signal and
> rebroadcasting
> > it on terrestrial radio. How does howard know they aren't
> > paying the 12.99 a month for the signal? Am I reading into
> a
> > statement too much at face value? Whenever I hear someone
> > say this I think of how people used to steal satellite Tv
> by
> > reprogramming the cards.
> >
>
> They are paying for the signal, but they do not have the
> right to broadcast it over public airwaves.
>
Since the reciever has a built in FM transmitter, isn't that exactly what you have to do to listen? With my reciever on, you can hear my Sirius broadcasting for the better part of a mile. If I chose to listen to Howard Stern one morning, anyone within that mile of me could listen to it too. For free. That's not my fault, nor my problem, as I pay for the service, which gives me the right to turn it on and ultimately broadcast a station that doesn't legally exist in my community. No one is installing a chip in the system, or reprogramming a card, like people used to do with DirecTV or Dish. I would think that enforcement of any FCC rules in this text, is impossible.<P ID="signature">______________
You can't kill rock-n-roll, it's here to stay
R.I.P. KEGL-Dallas & KLOL-Houston</P>
 
> > a lot of people including Howard Stern are saying that the
>
> > pirates are "stealing" the sirius signal and
> rebroadcasting
> > it on terrestrial radio. How does howard know they aren't
> > paying the 12.99 a month for the signal? Am I reading into
> a
> > statement too much at face value? Whenever I hear someone
> > say this I think of how people used to steal satellite Tv
> by
> > reprogramming the cards.
> >
>
> They are paying for the signal, but they do not have the
> right to broadcast it over public airwaves.
>

The post said "pirates". Broadcasting 200 yards using your internal FM modulator doesn't make you a "pirate".
 
Newer Sirius Radio's have much lower FM Transmitters and won't reach across the room anymore. I have a ST2 Replay unit ESN# 0074xxxxx has a great FM output but 010xxxxxx stinks. Sirius said the FCC made them lower the signal but they don't know the ESN# it started at.
 
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