[BC] FCC Seeking Extra Funds to go after Pirates

[Steve Lewis]

> One Broadcast Industry newsletter is saying that FCC Chairman Genachowski
is seeking extra funding (about $2.5 million) to
 > enhance the Enforcement Bureau's direction-finding equipment to enable
them to track down more pirates. Along with that, 
>they are asking for about $1.1 million to replace their aging fleet of
trucks that carry said equipment.
>
>Looks like we are about to get our wish  :)

You don't necessarily want that wish.  There could be a time when the only
source of news that matters is the guy down the road playing hip hop or
Cuban music.  With the government taking over everything in our lives, I
find it suspicious that they've taken an interest in "fixing" the EAS and
now getting rid of pirates.  They seem to care about interference to GPS (a
military thing in my book) but not to interference between real stations.
Call me skeptical of anything the government does that's supposed to be
"good for us."