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You just called it what it is. Criminal extortion, and it would also be sabotage, to use a frequency band to attack another party running on it. That doesn't m
by zanny 14y ago
You just called it what it is. Criminal extortion, and it would also be sabotage, to use a frequency band to attack another party running on it.
That doesn't magically become legal. For the same reasons you could take someone using "your" frequency right now to court, you could take someone using the frequencies you do only for the purposes of attacking the signal quality on the same basis.
And no, opening up spectrum doesn't suddenly mean everyone and their mom is buying radios and spamming electromagnetic radiation, for the same reason people don't do it today, because they can be targeted for sabotage if they aren't productively using their radio usage.
- mikeash 14y agoI don't understand, if there's no ownership of the spectrum, then on what basis would the user be able to take the attacker to court? What if the attacker says he just really enjoys spamming high-powered electromagnetic hash, but would be willing to give up his hobby for the right price?
- zanny 14y agoThat right there would be considered extortion in court, and like I said, it is sabotage to actively attack infrastructure to defraud a business (ie, blocking roads for trucks, building a power sink to rip juice from a local area from someone, scheduling trains to intentionally prevent someone else from using them at a certain time). It is like any other infrastructure. You should be free to use it, and punished if you abuse it.
- mikeash 14y agoWho decides that my joyous hobby of spamming the radio spectrum is extortion and not legitimate use?