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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.dcom,net.video,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 10:19:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 10:19:04 1985
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In article <20281@mgweed.UUCP> prg@mgweed.UUCP (Phil Gunsul) writes:
>>
>>     Interception of common carrier telephone facilities, wire, coax,
>>microwave, satellite, whatever; I am assured by a prominent Washington
>>attorney, is technically wiretapping.
>
>ONLY if I use what I hear!!  I can listen as much as I want, I just
>can't use or repeat it.  Maybe you better explain that to your
>prominent Washington attorney.

Not true! You are referring to the sectoion 605 of the Communications Act.
Common carriers are protected (by different rules) from interception. Those
rules have been used to prosecute (for example) MDS HBO listeners.


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