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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on October 18, 2022, 1307 UTC

Title: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 18, 2022, 1307 UTC

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/in-pirate-hunt-fcc-puts-the-focus-on-landlords

Title: Re: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: Pigmeat on October 18, 2022, 1434 UTC

That's where the money and the leverage is.

Title: Re: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: Molvania Poacher on October 19, 2022, 0305 UTC

Yep, smart enforcement strategy, authorized under the PIRATE Act (with its spiffy name).

Express language regarding landlords, property managers, advertisers and other financial supporters of pirate stations did not make it in the final version of the PIRATE Act in 2020, but FCC is interpreting "willfully and knowingly does or causes or suffers to be done” such broadcasts as to covers landlords and property managers.

As stated in All The President's Men...Follow the money.

Title: Re: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: Pigmeat on October 19, 2022, 1241 UTC

And signed into law by a notorious slumlord. Could this one end up backfiring on the Great Trumpkin?

Title: Re: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: Molvania Poacher on October 20, 2022, 0231 UTC

That particular irony had been lost on me, until now. Well played, Sir Pigmeat!

Title: Re: In Pirate Hunt, FCC Puts the Focus on Landlords
Post by: Pigmeat on October 20, 2022, 1012 UTC

Thank you.