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Absolutely. And that is why Radio Caroline - a 1960's pirate radio station is doing rather well as an internet stream and as a local AM radio station in the UK. It features a lot of 70's album tracks. Hear the streams on this page http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk...

With spam, the key is to follow the money. Obviously someone is making serious dollars out of the C1alis, etc. They need credit card clearing and bank accounts. Nobody can tell me these are untraceable these days.

As someone once said, follow the money.

the station is the broadcaster of pop music for our sceptered isle
Bollocks is it! Radio 1 is the redheaded-inbred-bastard-stepchild of the BBC radio family. Radio 2 OWNS it in every way.
1)Radio 2's management isn't dumb enough to fire the Radio Caroline DJ's Infact, they've picked a few of 'em up over the years.
2)Radio 2's got Steve Wright
3)Radio 2 has managed to retain a single GOOD (i.e. most listened-to) morning presenter(Terry Wogan), unlike the series of gibbering retards that 1 has gone through (Chris Evans etc etc)
4)Radio 1's premier retard, Chris "Chrispy Boils" Moyles is so untalented that no only does he have to surround himself with an entourage of syncophants in order to produce a single show's worth of content, but he's been knows to steal content used by Ian Collins, the Talk Radio presenter, who, coincidentally, happens to be doing his show about the time that Moyles would be going to work.
5)Radio 2 has Waay better content. Aside from a wider range of better music than 1, 2 also has the wonder that is Jammin, It's Been A Bad Week and the like.
6)When I spend all day listening to 2, I don't hear the same song more than once per-presenter, and even then it's "packed" in a wide variety of different stuff. 1 on the other hand, when I have been forced to listen to it, is to repetitive that I could quite literally set my clock by it - Approx 5 PM Thursday, "handbags and gladrags", for the 4/5th time that day.(This is a year or so ago mind, schedules will have changed)

In summation, just 'cos it broadcasts the charts doesn't make 1 better by any means. It's the station of Bass-tards, white-kids-who-wanna-be-ghetto, people who are so mortally brain damaged to think Chris Moyles is funny and 40 year old who think they're 25 (Yes, You! My Ex-Employer! This Means You, you Faith-Hill Listening PRAT!)
The only things Radio 1 broadcasts to our "sceptered isle" is FAR, FAR TOO MANY BASS FREQUENCIES (is your colon vibrating yet?), the inane ravings of presenters so un-talented that no other station would touch them with a bargepole and so much Forced-Bling-Culture even this highly ecclectic listener feels like slitting my wrists to get away from it. (Nothing against people who Bling naturally, but people who put it on as a show shoud be pushed through a cheesewire mesh arse-first.)

Oh yeah, and in case anyone thinks of replying along the lines of "shuttup kid", I remember when this was all fie....er....when radio 5 played music!

You just register it with a country that doesn't mind what you're up to. It worked for the Caroline (for a few years, anyway).

As for dockings for maintenance: you can bring supplies using another ship. That's how Sealand manages, and it's never going to dock anywhere.

And you think mainstream music in the 1950 and 60s was different to now? It wasn't.

BBC radio was the same old bland rubbish back then. Kids had to listen to live music or tune in to foreign radio stations to hear the "new music", the BBC would only play what the government wanted to do. This lead to the invention of pirate radio, radio stations on ships anchored in international waters off the British coast.

Independent radio isn't a god-given right, it's a business just like the music business. It can only survive if it can sell its listeners to its advertisers. You can't run a radio station out of your own pocket like you can with a website, unless you're very rich. Imagine a student radio station: the radio authority fees for FM would be £1500 non-refundable application fee + £214 per year. The Performing Rights fees would be £400 per year, and then there's the transmitter and studio electricity bill, assuming your DJs are doing it for free and playing only their own records to save the station buying any! You can't get away without sponsorship, and sponsors are only looking for one thing - your audience.

The same thing goes for any pubs and clubs you've been to - there's a world of fees and licensing ready to swallow you up unless you turn a steady profit.

Please stop pretending that "independent" radio, clubs and musicians are anything less than money-grubbing whores, because that's what they are.

By means of violence and force of numbers the Dutch took control of the ship and as chaos reigned, the disc jockeys relayed a blow by blow account of events to the astonished listeners. Then when the transmitters were silenced the Dutch stripped the ship of all broadcast equipment while the British attempted to interrogate the crew under threat of arrest. All this happened in International waters where the boarders had no official powers. In the early evening, Carolines British tender, posing as a press launch, reached the ship with some genuine journalists on board. The raiders immediately left taking with them all of the records, studios and transmitting equipment and leaving behind some vandalism and deliberate damage. They also left behind the British crew who refused to desert their ruined ship.

Country? Says whom, Sealand? So what.

Radio Caroline History Of course, the Radio Caroline site is hardly an unbiased source, and IANAIL.

Does Sealand have an Internet suffix? .sl belongs to Sierra Leone, I guess not. Bah, if Tuvalu has a suffix and can rent it (.tv), and Sealand doesn't, then they aren't a country. :^)

I suppose that could be stretched to cover a data haven. (Or just pass another law.)