https://www.ebay.com/itm/157144253708?_trksid=p2332490.c101875.m1851Why don't I buy a shit ton of these and just host old tv shows for my entire town? What would happen?
>>106429361You'd go to federal prison. Next question.
>>106429376has anybody actually tried it though and went to prison.
>>106429398Yes. The FCC and boomers patrolling rf spectrum don't play around
>>106429398all the fucking time for the last century
>>106429361>buys piece of outdated tv equipment>somehow dumb enough to do it but smart enough to do it>tramples all over some cellphone company's service>within an hour, 50 federal SUVs in your front lawn
>>106429457>>106429463Why must they take away anything decent. it was so fucking cool, how fast would they even find you.>>106429486sounds based.I would host only good movies and only let my friends know.
>>106429486don't you find it mad funny you can just buy them though, and it would work. I would have a twin peak marathon. all in my backyard with no need for internet.
>>106429522That box is an intermediate transmitter. You would need a power amplifier the size of a car and an industrial electrical source.
>>106429361any of you guys remember the black boxes from the 90s. literally free tv back in the day.
>>106429542So im guessing my house wouldn't be enough or the range would just be shit?
>>106429486>nooo you can't transmit electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency, photons with those physical attributes are copyrightedhonestly governments should just dissolve themselves
>>106429633I guess I should be able to piss in your cereal then. I mean you don't have a copyright on piss do you? No. So what's the fucking problem. Drink my piss, asshat.
>>106429633it needs to be regulated because if it wasnt there would be total chaos with everyone brodcasting over each other and nothing would work.you're dumb as fuck
>>106429500The radio boomers will find your exact location to the meter, then report you in 10 minutes. Those fuckers are more autistic than 4chan
>>106429566Tell me more about this. I'm a post 2000 zoomer.
>>106429522You can actually make an analog TV transmitter quite easily by yourself. You just need to make an AM transmitter that can work on TV frequencies and feed a composite signal into it. For audio, an FM transmitter with the right frequency range does the trick.
>>106429361It's the same as pirate radio and usually same people dealing with it. Except pirate TV awakens their interest as unusual and potentially seditious, so they then go after you with a bit more enthusiasm.
>>106430274That chick from Blazing Saddles solved that problem.
>>106430366that's because it's easier to track a transmission
>>106430442The biggest difference is that pirate radio transmissions usually happen on frequency bands that see little use otherwise. Transmitting on analog TV frequences would fuck with a lot of stuff.
>>106429361Using spectrum you didn't pay to broadcast on is highly policed/regulated. Any break in someone's service that "owns" whatever frequency you decide to interrupt will have the Feds on you in literal minutes.
>>106429376>Why don't I buy a shit ton of these and just host old tv shows for my entire town?you'll also need a lot of other gear before that's possible>>106430385hacked cable/satellite tv boxes using ancient and broken scrambling methods/encryption or using exploited SIM cards/Conditional Access Modules. was a wild and extremely fun time.
>>106430591> he really believes that people would attempt to broadcast on regulated frequenciescringe. pirate radio and tv has been a thing for decades and people have got away with it. you write like a 70yo boomer that gets shit on by your fellow ham enthusiasts.
>>106430669>hacked cable/satellite tv boxes using ancient and broken scrambling methods/encryption or using exploited SIM cards/Conditional Access Modules. was a wild and extremely fun time.That's pretty cool. I'm guessing that these days, the DRM is pretty much uncrackable, right?
>>106430682>'m guessing that these days, the DRM is pretty much uncrackable, right?no. nothing has changed. as tech evolves, so do those people that have an interest in breaking it. every drm used in bluray, streaming etc. is known about and is continually exploited. on the cable/satellite tv side, they tried to prevent this by generating new encryption keys at any random time.
>>106429361the f.c.c won't leave you be
>>106430761they tried to shut me down on mtv but it feels so empty without me
>>106429500>how fast would they even find you.prolly pretty fast considering the issue is itself a literal beacon at the same time
>>106430772pirates got around this decades ago by having many transmitters scattered across an entire city. they would randomly switch to different transmitters in order to make triangulation techniques very difficult to put into practice. it's like chasing a ghost.
>>106430787pretty clever idea, that would require friends, however
>>106430771surprised someone recognised that so quickly. still have some oldfags here
>>106430792pirate radio stations have a lot of support from people, including those that would donate cash, time and resources to help build equipment from scratch or buy it, repairing it etc,etc. some of these setups were very well organized.>>106430806yeah, i am pretty ancient.
>>106430761>>106430806DRUNKENMUNKY
>>106429361>>106429376>>106429500That's why you put the broadcast transmitter and antenna somewhere else in town, like a rooftop and stream to it over internet. Worst thing that can happen, is that you loose your equipment. If you ever get caught servicing it, you have plausible deniability.
>>106429376Do you suck cock?
>>106429500The amount of radio bandwidth available on earth is very limited, all things considered. A ton of critical infrastructure relies on radio.
>>106432364>very limitedand very expensive. Companies paying for bandwidth will not sit still while OP splatters their way across their allocated part of the spectrum.
>>106429376>the land of the free
>>106429361Go ahead.
>>106429361The FCC boomers work on reports. Someone will report you and you'll get fined 10k or so for pirate broadcasting. The fines get extreme but they only really bother with anything serious if you ignore their letters.
>>106429457Look up the FCC history of prosecutions and fines. All of them in the last 10 years are for pirate broadcasts and for jamming and similar fucknuggetry.
>>106429633It's not a copyright issue. There's literally limited airwave space for broadcasts so you you want it you pay for it.
>>106430681>people have got away with itSome people have gotten away with it. They usually do so by being very careful and not broadcasting over something anyone else uses.
>>106430806bro it's a song from one of the most popular 2000s artists of all time Go ahead and make a beatles reference next time
>>106430385my dad knew a guy, we got special tv for free like the old Disney channel and such.
>>106432516i'm not that old. it's a short and modified line that appears in a 23 year old song, i doubt a teenager would have recognised it
>>106430366Why would the boomers report me, I will host Kinovision.
>>106432485What if the movies are broadcasted through a vhs player.
>>106432457That's right. The limited availability, heavy regulation and high costs make sure only serious businesses use it, and they will absolutely expect their shit to not be jammed.
>>106432796vhs player? you mean a vcr?
>>106432810yeah
>>106432461I just want to host a TV channel.
How much could it cost to do this legally? Leasing a channel I mean. $50,000?
>>106432889Incorporate an LLC and apply for it. While it's illegal to do all this stuff without a LOICENSE actually getting those licenses is generally pretty easy.
>>106432889I think you should, but meanwhile you can host a "online tv channel". Why not that? I believe in you, anon.
>>106432905but thats lame and it would be pozzed and full of ads.
>>106432908>and full of ads.are you stupid or something? how do you think PBS and NPR function then? You can just beg for donations or bankroll the operation yourself
>>106432911I always thought those were funded by the government or something.
>Subchannels in a single market range from $500 to $10,000 a month depending on market, channel position, programming, and availability. Initial capital investments range from $25,000 to $100,000, again depending on the market.https://www.lptvba.org/networks
>>106432502Ummm the frequency number can be any real positive number though ? theres infinite channels
>>106430274LAND OF THE FREE
>>106433074
>>106430274there should be bands where this would be the normal. call them freedom bands
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234079814176?pfm=0Holy>12k>2k shippingworth
>>106433420>techbros invent CB/FRS/GMRS but badtheres already huge swaths of the spectrum that are open to use for anybody and CB is full of retarded boomer shitposting while FRS and GMRS are only spared from it due to poor range (but places with clubs who use GMRS repeaters tend to have at least a little bit of boomer retard baby talk)also maritime VHF often "requires a license" but not really since it's part of getting a boat license, and if you're not boating you're not supposed to use it. so it's not totally free spectrum but it's intended for a certain group of people who then use it basically freely and dont have to reserve channels or anything.
>>106430274This is both un-free and against Free Market principles. Whatever retards thought up regulations need to be killed.
I'm not driving I'm travelling so I don't need a driver's license
>>106433463If it requires a license it isn't Free. If it is regulated at all it isn't Free. Stop treading on the Right of Americans to be Free.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234079818014?_trksid=p2332490.c101224.m-1buy this fallout tech for 20k then everyone in my city could watch me host.... anything.then go to jail.
>>106433525ok so use CB/FRS/GMRS which are all usable without a loicense. they are HF/UHF/VHF bands respectively so theres a pile of open freqs for any use case
>>106433546realistically because everyone uses satellite tv or roku box knockoffs, no one will tune into your channel. you're like 20 years late for pirate tv. pirate fm radio is still a thing though and much simpler to achieve (and even has lesser content programming requirements)also you can just open a stream channel. get on shoutcast, bro, people still use winamp radio, brohttps://directory.shoutcast.com/
>>106430366I checked into some boomer QRU night thing from my shitty memefeng and no fewer than three boomers threatened to start a "fox hunt"it was lulzy but annoying because i just wanted to talk about nonsense over the air with other radio enjoyers
>>106433572I just want it so I can smoke weed in my backyard and watch shit. I would get my friends to but antenna tvs and they could do the same.
>>106433628unironically why not just operate a shoutcast type stream theni forget the usual suite for video but winamp "radio" also had/has tv channels> I would get my friends to but antenna tvs and they could do the same.i forget what its called but i think theres a GHz band open range intended for hobbyist devices. not full on IoT but more like "I have chosen to use a bluetooth adapter to transmit shit that is not bluetooth packets"
>>106433674ill look into it but its not as cool.
>>106433628>backyardYou can get away transmitting a weak signal like that.
>>106434093what would you buy for a weak signal like that?
>>106435276VCR and old analog amplified TV antenna (it works bi-directionally, like those ones with one knob for strenght and usually with two telescope antennas and one round one in the middle). HDMI to composite, doesn't have to be anything fancy, composite into the VCR, antenna hooked up to the RF output of the VCR.
>>106435305Ok thanks for the info bro
broadcast on guard and speedrun getting arrested as you fuck up air communication
>>106429522It's possible to make an illegal radio transmitter with nothing more than a shitberry pi and a shortl wire.You only find it funny because you are clueless about rf
>>106433674In Europe, or at least my part of it, the 433 MHz band is popular for this purpose and you can buy general purpose radio kits to use in your hobby projects. Other than that, there are a bunch of bands you are free to transmit on. As long as you stick to the minuscule output power limits, you can obviously transmit whatever you want on WiFi and BT frequencies since no one is likely to check that you are transmitting actual WiFi or BT.Otherwise, the band plan is usually, if not always, public information so just search for whatever the name of the government body that deals with it is in your country and you can probably find a list online.
>>106436111No you misunderstand me, I find it funny because any man could buy these transmitters from ebay. yet its "illegal" to turn it on and use it. you could find it at savers or a yard sale.
>>106429463>all the fucking time for the last centuryGot any cases? Must have loads on hand to make such a claim
>>106432889 >>106433628Just start with webcasts, it is free, legal, and can reach a wider geographical area. Thing is, after a few days you will be bored and leave. We have had a lot of cyberpunk internet radio stations and one by one they fell off the net.
Do you live near a coast?You can just buy a decommissioned cargo ship and strap it with transmission equipment.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Veronica
>>106436828The word "just" is doing some serious heavy lifting for dudes who want to "just want it so I can smoke weed in my backyard."
>>106430682no, widevine and playready are apparently completely useless if the content is popular enough for people to want it. piracy is a service problem tho so companies are encouraged not to overcharge as long as consumers have another option
>>106432731boomers are zog-loving bootlickers
Bros i want to learn about radio and similar stuff but i live in mexico and i dont want to mess with some cartel by mistake. What can i do? How do i protect myself if something goes wrong?
>>106432592True. Eminem is kind of an underground classic.
>>106432592There are plenty of people in here more than 60 years old.
>>106429361A few seconds searching would have shown you that this product has a major security issues but that the sompany refuses to respond to these. A gmail contact address plus address in the form of>101 Your Name Road, Your City, United of Kingdom203does not help much either.https://eurotel.tv/?page_id=1613#
>>106431999what happens if you chuck one of them on a McDonalds roof or some shit and set it to stream the english translation of Hitler’s speech?
>>106441680The monitoring stations of dozens of cellphone providers and the FCC would light up like a jukebox, the site would be located in minutes, and the transmitter would be taken off the air within hours. Since this is the land of the free, you would be on a few hundred camera recordings, several nameless agencies would assist, and you would be facing federal crimes. This discussion would be found, so the judge would find it was premeditated, so you would spend at least a decade or so in fedral prison.
>>106432592>a 23 year old songman this hits so hard, i remember downloading the music video for this as well as other hits of the time.interestingly I've never ever been into rap and haven't been ever since, but I can still quote that single song from beginning to end.
>>106429500>ow fast would they even find you.Radio triangulation mah niggaits been a thing for decades
