[Pearls Before Swine]

To while away the hours, you flip open your laptop and begin surfing the internet's best, most awesome website, Freerepublic.com, when suddenly, nine jackbooted thugs in inpenetrable armored exoskeletons begin raining fists down on you, dragging you out of the car through the wing window ...

Some years ago (maybe this is still the case for all I know), in England you had to pay to listen to over-the-air TV. The TV police would go around with a van equipped with a radio direction finder, looking for the emissions from television local oscillators, and cross-checking them against a database of paid subscribers.

No subscription... a ticket. No concept of "free radio communications" there!

[libertarian27]

They still have that in the UK - don’t forget to pay your telly-tax.....