(act) As rádios piratas ainda existem nos EUA

Com tanta oferta, no éter e na net, é no mínimo curioso como é que ainda existem rádios piratas.

Esta história mostra que sim (as piratas no seu melhor/pior...): "NEW YORK, NY, United States (UPI) -- The new, lewder, pay-to-listen Howard Stern satellite broadcasts are being pirated over terrestrial radio airwaves. Dial surfers in the Newark, N.J./Secaucus, N.Y. area heard language banned from public airwaves as a rogue station replayed Stern`s Thursday morning broadcast that was supposed to be heard only by subscribers to Sirius satellite radio, the New York Daily News reported Friday. A Sirius spokesman had no comments on the Stern broadcasts on 95.1 FM in New York and 101.5 FM in New Jersey, the Daily News said. A Federal Communications Commission spokesman said the group takes pirate broadcasting ’very seriously,’ but said as far as the content goes, it has no power over what Stern says on the satellite service. An expert told the Daily News it`s ’very easy’ to download the satellite signal and send it over the public airwaves. ’You only need about $1,500 worth of equipment,’ he said. ’It`s illegal, of course, but it`s attractive to some people because even if you`re caught, FCC enforcement can be a slow process’.»

(fonte: United Press international, "Pirate radio picking up Sirius Stern show", Jan 13, 2006, Copyright 2006 by United Press International, 14:32 GMT via RadioAbout)

ACT a 30/1: "TheStreet.com reports that pirate radio stations with names like hearhoward.org and hearhoward100.com began streaming taped broadcasts of Howard Stern's live show shortly after Stern jumped to pay radio. Sirius and Stern's production company countered by sending out cease-and-desist letters to shut the pirates down.

While pirating Stern is not new, it was one thing when Stern was King of All Free Radio, but now that he’s on Sirius at $12.95 a month, if the show leaks out for free, fans would have little incentive to keep paying. TheStreet likens it to a scenario where water fountains started spraying free Coca-Cola. In that case, who’d want to part with four quarters for a bottle of Coke?"