Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday September 24, 2006 @07:44PM from the arr-sailing-the-airwaves-and-flogging-the-listeners dept.

Thundgelmir writes "Yahoo news has an article about how pirate radio is taking on the FCC. It describes the growing trend of low-power FM stations, and their crusade to be heard across the country and around the internet." From the article: "Over four days, a dozen men and women shyly bumped shoulders as they studied schematics and tinkered with romex connectors, resistors, microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors — the stuff of illegal radio stations. 'We're not stealing anything. We're claiming something that's rightfully ours,' he says. His goal is to create FM radio stations faster than the FCC can shut them down ... 'It's always been our position that if enough people go on the air with their stations, the FCC will be overwhelmed and unable to respond.'"

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Unintended Consequence by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-25 04:29 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If the FCC is unable to respond, that just means eventually congress will grant them more funding, either through increased taxes or by taking away from other funds. This just means the FCC will grow in size and scope to better handle the policing of the air waves. Good job for helping grow an already semi-annoying government organization.

"Don't you people get it? It's the phone cops!!"