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UK bans iPod transmitter
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Only in the UK 
I feel the need to emigrate, more and more every day.
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Makes no practical sense to forbid any equipment to use the FM band at all. There should be limitations, but this sounds a bit nonsense to me. We have some strict laws here in my country, but it hasn't stopped iTrip from what I know.
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Yes, crazy ass nuts.
Does DAB transmit using the FM and MW bandwidths? If so, this could be the problem government types still have a problem with 'the public' using these transmitters.
I would hope that once analogue signals are 'switched off' in a few years that they will open up the analogue airwaves for the public to use. I never quite got bigbrothers problem with pirate radio. It's the fear that knowledge can be transmitted by someone who is not on their payroll...
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If the transmission range is short enough, how will the know you're using it?
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FM broadcasters such as the iTrip are illegal throughout Europe - that's why you can only order from the U.S. if you want one (technically Griffen shouldn't sell them to people abroad).
The law has been like this for a long time - they haven't been banned, they were never legal in the first place 
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Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
Only in the UK
I feel the need to emigrate, more and more every day.
Where would you go?
I'm pretty sure most European nations have similar legislature. The iTrip never even went on sale in Germany AFAIK, as it would definitely be illegal.
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Originally posted by Eriamjh:
If the transmission range is short enough, how will the know you're using it?
They don't. That's why I am not all that worried about mine 
It is a pain nonetheless. A friend of mine got contacted by the authorities after, innocently, selling a transmitter on ebay UK. He got off with a warning.
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Where would you go?
I'm pretty sure most European nations have similar legislature. The iTrip never even went on sale in Germany AFAIK, as it would definitely be illegal.
-s*
I was pretty sure it was available here since it have been posted on so many local news sites earlier. Now i am a bit uncertain so I dropped a line to Griffin Technology.
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Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
I feel the need to emigrate, more and more every day.
Yep. Know that feeling.
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Originally posted by sniffer:
I was pretty sure it was available here since it have been posted on so many local news sites earlier. Now i am a bit uncertain so I dropped a line to Griffin Technology.
Why rock the boat? 
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Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Where would you go?
I'm pretty sure most European nations have similar legislature. The iTrip never even went on sale in Germany AFAIK, as it would definitely be illegal.
-s*
I would love to live in Canada...
Or if I had to settle for closer to home, Italy, where my family are from.
The UK is just a hateful place to live. 
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Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
Only in the UK
I feel the need to emigrate, more and more every day.
Nope, AFAIK you can't transmit FM yourself anywhere in Europe.
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Originally posted by Mastrap:
Why rock the boat?
I think it wouldn't hurt asking.
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Subject: Re: iTrip available in Europe?
You can buy it off our web site...
On 8/1/03 7:40 AM, "Hasselberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
According to this site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3115345.stm iTrip is not allowed
in UK.
Do you know the status for the rest of Europe? Can I buy one in Norway
and is there any resellers here?
Thanks. Mr. Hasselberg.
Case closed.
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wow that really sucks, I am getting ready to buy a iTrip, but of course I am in the states
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