Full StoryThe world of online music is evolving at a global breakneck pace. Millions of people are Pandoring, Turntabling, and Spotifying away. They're sharing their music choices on their mobiles via Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. Users, developers, and entrepreneurs are redefining the very nature of broadcasting for the foreseeable future.
But over at the Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau, it's as if this revolution isn't even happening. In the spirit of Javert, the obsessed police inspector in Les Misérables, the law must be enforced. And the law doesn't focus on reigning in the waves of deep packet inspection that ISPs still deploy throughout the United States. It's about fining unlicensed radio stations like the one run by Dan "Monkey Man" Roberts called "Pirate Cat," a radio cafe operation that ran a "broadcast station without a license issued by the FCC on 87.9 MHz in San Francisco, California," according to the agency's Forfeiture Order.
Uncle Sam slaps San Francisco radio pirate with $10k fine
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Uncle Sam slaps San Francisco radio pirate with $10k fine
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"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it" - Ambrose's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law.