[sudo-discuss] there are no LPFM slots on the FM band in the bay area, period.

[Jake]

>> Just put a big fucking antenna on the roof and start broadcasting, if
>> you don't, i will, god damnit.
>>
>> Stop overthinking things and do it.
>
> Why? So you can inflict a $20,000 fine on Sudo Room as quickly as 
> humanly possible?

it takes a long time and a lot of work and listeners before you even get 
the ten-day warning, let alone an unenforcable fine.  Don't forget that 
Berkeley Liberation Radio has been broadcasting for almost ten years now, 
interrupted more often by their own failures than by two FCC raids where 
the FCC basically snatched their equipment and fled like cowards.

No one at BLR has ever been successfully "fined", and even the NAL (Notice 
of Apparent Liability) filed against Stephen Dunifer of FRB before them 
has just sat uncollected, like almost all NALs against pirates, for twenty 
years now.  Stephen's very public response to the Notice of Apparent 
Liability was "Apparently not."

The FCC's fine enforcement mechanism is to threaten to revoke your 
stations lisence.  This works when they fine lisenced broadcasters for the 
seven deadly words or whatever, but filed against an unlisenced person 
it's a joke.  Witness the fine against Daniel Robert of Pirate Cat Radio, 
which is an example of a person who put his full name all over everything 
and even corresponded with the FCC in the mail, making it personal.  They 
haven't even collected anything from him.

here's the story of pirate cat's fine:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/10/fcc-fines-monkey-man-radio-pirate-10k-war-continues/

The point is, if sudoroom decides as a group to broadcast a signal from 
the roof or wherever (we can stream over the internet you know) then 
sudoroom can decide for itself whether it wants to keep going after 
getting a "ten day notice to cease broadcasting" If that EVER happens.

http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-264276A1.html

and if a broadcast is not coming from the building where sudoroom is, then 
it is not even a matter for sudoroom to have to decide on.  Sudoroom can 
continue to have an internet streaming radio station and leave it at that.