How is this legal? How is it legal to outlaw reception of radio transmissions under the FCC act of 1934? I have never understood this. I keep expecting at some point, someone will somehow come up with a good reason to take a monitoring claim to the US supreme court and get all these laws tossed aside. But I guess I am expecting too much. For all of it's faults, the fcc act of '34 established in law that the air waves are public property, that broadcasters operate under license and don't own jack shit, and that broadcasters must act in "the public interest, convenience, and necessity." Even during war time in the 40's it was established that anyone could "monitor" as the air waves are public property. However, it was further established that one could not act upon reception of certain broadcasts with malicious intent and blah blah blah. How in the hell have all these anti-monitoring laws gotten passed? Do any of our lawmakers have any clue how the law works at all? This is sickening. *WE THE PEOPLE* own the airwaves. PERIOD. Sony doesn't own them, Verizon doesn't own them, for heavens sake, CNN certainly doesn't own them, and as far as sat tv goes, neither does the Playboy channel. WE own them.