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Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by beowulfey »

wolverine876 wrote: post #8

The obvious issue is whether radio adds any value now that we can stream over the Internet, with unlimited channels. While I'm a geek and love the idea of broadcast over free airways, practically how is radio any more useful now than cable tv? Here are some answers: * We're talking about pirate radio, not commercial. Pirate radio is a person broadcasting to the world, or really to their neighbors. We can do that on t…

Sometimes the ephemerality of the medium is what makes it special. Radio exists just while you hear it. Having it be accessible everywhere via the internet ruins that sense of place. I don't know, maybe I'm just old.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by wishfish »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #35
sonicanatidae wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

College stations are usually the hold outs for non-mainstreamed music, in my experience. I was also a college DJ, so +1 for college radio, even if your tower can't reach past the parking lot. ;)

Agree. It's almost like there should be a station in every metropolitan area that is reserved for public access — divide the week up into 30-minute spots and let the public sign up for those slots to DJ.

Many cities already have essentially this. Community radio. Usually on the left end of the dial near NPR and the christian music stations.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by zackmorris »

happytiger wrote: post #19

We need more punks running pirate radio and less Clearchannel corporate nonsense. Like anybody’s life is better because of corporate radio… I for one welcome the interference. What is Radio being used for that’s so critical these days anyways beyond emergency spectrum stuff (that doesn’t get messed with on these spectrums to begin with)? Just remember that the system generally wants to shut down any media it can’t co…

Ya the crackdown on pirate radio is along the same lines as a TikTok ban.

Lawfulness has locked us down to the point where all we do is work to make rent. A little chaotic neutrality in the form of civil disobedience frees up the constraints so we can live again.

I'm woefully unfamiliar with Loki philosophy, but I feel it entering our collective psyche again through the return of magic. Which loosely puts free will, awareness and consciousness above science in the material plane. Since the powers that be work through ego, a Global Awakening of the soul threatens them. Hence the million dollar fines directed at.. churches.

Which tend to not go over so well, so the status quo is finding itself in a pickle for the first time since maybe the 1960s, along a number of fronts in this Silent Depression.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by don-code »

soupfordummies wrote: post #38

Seems like a good topic to ask about this: As you may remember, around 2009 or so, the US mandated that all TV signals had to be sent digital. And of course if you set up an antenna, you can receive crystal-clear HD broadcasts of local TV stations over the air. However, I used to live near a lot of towers and I was actually able to pick up a stray ANALOG station. It was a Spanish-language station but it came through.…

The law around digital transmission only applied to full-power broadcasters. Some low-power analog stations were allowed to keep operating until 2021.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by PM_me_your_math »

soupfordummies wrote: post #38

Seems like a good topic to ask about this: As you may remember, around 2009 or so, the US mandated that all TV signals had to be sent digital. And of course if you set up an antenna, you can receive crystal-clear HD broadcasts of local TV stations over the air. However, I used to live near a lot of towers and I was actually able to pick up a stray ANALOG station. It was a Spanish-language station but it came through.…

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Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by don-code »

wishfish wrote: post #42
JKCalhoun wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. It's almost like there should be a station in every metropolitan area that is reserved for public access — divide the week up into 30-minute spots and let the public sign up for those slots to DJ.

Many cities already have essentially this. Community radio. Usually on the left end of the dial near NPR and the christian music stations.

FM stations up to 91.9 are allocated for non-commerical use. This is where you typically find college radio, NPR, and so forth.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

stracer wrote: post #28

Fascinating how terms such as "pirate station" get into common language and nobody is getting a pause. Pirates are people who ransack other ships on the sea. The term has originally nothing to do with not having a license. Is a ship crew who sails the seas without a license a group of pirates? No. Is this a language psyop to implant people with a negative view of people who do stuff without official license?

Pirate stations steal bandwidth from the people that paid to use that radio channel.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by AAAAaccountAAAA »

stracer wrote: post #28

Fascinating how terms such as "pirate station" get into common language and nobody is getting a pause. Pirates are people who ransack other ships on the sea. The term has originally nothing to do with not having a license. Is a ship crew who sails the seas without a license a group of pirates? No. Is this a language psyop to implant people with a negative view of people who do stuff without official license?

Pirates were people who attacked merchant shipping without a license. Those who had a license for that were called privateers.

Re: Another crackdown on Boston-area pirate radio stations

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Post by dahfizz »

wolverine876 wrote: post #8

The obvious issue is whether radio adds any value now that we can stream over the Internet, with unlimited channels. While I'm a geek and love the idea of broadcast over free airways, practically how is radio any more useful now than cable tv? Here are some answers: * We're talking about pirate radio, not commercial. Pirate radio is a person broadcasting to the world, or really to their neighbors. We can do that on t…

Your average Joe can listen to radio completely anonymously on a device which the government has no control over.

Tor and similar tech is mostly outside the reach of the government, but is also way out of reach for the general population.

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