On 2/1/12 10:16 AM, George Bonser wrote: > > Let's say I had a business in space in a building I was leasing at 100 Main > Street, Podunk, USA. Now let's say you didn't renew the lease so I moved to > a building up the block but put the 100 Main Street address on my new > location and continued to use that address for my business. > > Or let's say I operated a TV station on channel 37 that was allocated to you > but you terminate my operating contract. So I lease/erect a new transmitter > and continue broadcasting on channel 37. > > There obviously must be a remedy for two parties attempting to utilize the > same resource at the same time, particularly when one party is the rightfully > in control of that resource's use. It might be civil rather than criminal > but the rightful owner of the resource would have a good case. >
The FCC has teeth if someone decided to disregard them. There is no analogue in the world of IP address assignments. ~Seth
