Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version VT3.3 7/21/84; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) Newsgroups: net.tv,net.legal Subject: satellites and legalities Message-ID: <379@vortex.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:47:52 EDT Article-I.D.: vortex.379 Posted: Thu Aug 9 03:47:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 08:16:28 EDT Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 7 Actually, the "footprint" of a broadcast isn't the issue--the intended audience IS. For example, listening in on telephone conversations off of a communications satellite (even though the satellite has a very broad footprint) is considered, from a legal standpoint, to be wiretapping. --Lauren--