From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 09:54:56 MDT
Note that the Brits actually usd to run detector vans around; they'd have
direction-finding loop antennas sniffing for the IF oscillator emissions, I
seem to recall. But of course that costs money and today's LCD/digital TVs
have a lot less emission to spot.
At least in the UK they thought they had to have evidence. This might be
related to the Common Law.
"The innocent have nothing to fear."
Amara Graps wrote:
>
> "Hubert Mania" <mania@welfen-netz.com>:
> > That`s a fact. They don`t believe you don`t have a TV set. It`s beyond
> > their imagination. Someone without a TV set is suspected to hide his radio
> > and TV before the eyes of the authorities.
> I would rather _not_ be polite... this issue makes me furious.
Amara, a lot of people have taken their flags off their cars, the American
Uebercarabinieri are sifting out of the airports, and some of the rhetoric has
cooled. Not nagging or trying to get you more steamed. Just saying, is all.
This particular issue won't get you steamed here. The DMCA might, though.
> Apparently there's a market for broken TVs and radios in Napoli,
> for performing exactly this function.
>
> (I love this story, and it's true)
I can ship you one. Dead serious. But it'll be an NTSC one, and thus "broken".
Play dumb and they'll eventually figure you don't understand that there's a
different TV standard in Deutschland. The hard part will be convincing them
that you were that ignorant when you moved to Europe.
Hmm... do you have a computer at home? Does it have a USB port? This is
related to that workaround--I have a Hauppauge USB TV adaptor I can do
without, and it's cheaper to ship, and still NTSC. Plus it's techie and
somewhat perverse. "Was ist den los?" "Ein' USB-Fernseher, Herr Oberst!"
"[incredulous look] [unintelligible muttering...]"
Yours for mindfscking the fsckers,
MMB
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I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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