Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccs6.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccs6!ix21 From: ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (David Whiteman) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.legal Subject: Re: Illegal satellite dish cleanup in San Francisco area? Message-ID: <1674@sdccs6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 00:25:28 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccs6.1674 Posted: Thu Aug 9 00:25:28 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Aug-84 01:09:38 EDT References: <645@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: UCSD Medical School Lines: 13 Wales@ucla-cs recently posted an article questioning the legality of the acts of a firm trying to eliminate pirating of subscription T.V. signals. This firm apparently identified people who had microwave antennas by various photography techniques; this firm then told these people to desist and pay $300 as an out of court settlement or be sued. According to news today Wales is not the only one to question the legality of this program. The famed lawyer Martin Belli has called these actions "extortion," and has started filing a class-action suit against Premier Television on behalf of those in the SF area who have microwave antennas. David Whiteman