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Offline spils78

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UK feeds
« on: April 14, 2011, 06:07:58 PM »
This has probably been discussed before, but as I'm new, what the heck!

I understand that we can't have any UK feeds because of OFCOM regs. However if the person who owned the scanning receiver held a valid flight radiotelephony operators licence (FRTOL) and didn't actually stream the received signals but recorded them and played them back later, say 5 seconds later, would that still be a breach of the regs?



Offline delta092b

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Re: UK feeds
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 09:51:00 PM »
It has been discussed and there is a entire thread on the subject.

Outside of all the legal "blurb" I understand that the bottom line is that you can't re-broadcast or pass on information that you have heard, if you were not the intended recipient or authorized by that person.

I might be wrong but that's my understanding.

It's OK for them to video and watch your every movement though :P

Offline sunburn

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Re: UK feeds
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2011, 05:33:06 PM »
there may be far fetched technical loopholes, etc. but if you start streaming you're still going to have the full weight of OFCOM knocking on your door. you could of course continue streaming and fight it out in court, but essentially that's why nobody has ever really fought it out. we all have too much to loose, unless of course you're a retired millionaire.