THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1981
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ctor, who pushed through
[he says are the first criminal
tments in a pay-television-
mission-interception case,
several thousand people who
lit the equipment are liable
rosecution.
light indicted owners, former
irs and employees of Pirate
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led to surrender this week to
pi marshalls to face criminal
fges of mail fraud, criminal
infringement and un
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan
- tin said after issuance of the
Ktments the company adver-
d and sold special microwave
tnnae and converters capable
intercepting Taft Broadcasting
s signal of the Texas Enter-
iment Network, a pay TV sys-
He estimated the equipment
Ibeen sold to several thousand
ople.this year.
"The people who own one of
cse are also liable to both civil
and criminal prosecution,
Kamin said. “They are engaging in
unlawful interception of this prog
ramming. ”
He said no such prosecutions
were planned immediately, and in
the event of such action, the gov
ernment would have to prove the
equipment users know it is in
violation of the Federal Com
munication Act.
The indictment came on the
heels of a landmark ruling by the
9th Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco Monday that held
manufacturers and retailers of
video equipment liable in cases
involving copyright infringement.
Pirate Video owner Pete Stone,
one of those indicted, and his
lawyer, David Berg, rejected the
charges.
“The air space is free. Stone
said. “It belongs to the people. If
the companies want to keep it (the
signal) private, they can scramble
it, code it, filter it. They can run it
through the telephone lines, too.
Pirate Video also faces civil and
criminal charges stemming from
its attempt to intercept the closed-
circuit satellite signal of the Ray
Leonard-Thomas Hearnes fight
Sept. 16. That transmission was
scrambled at its point of origin two
minutes before the fight, and Pi
rate was unsuccessful in showing
it.
Kamin said federal investigators
in Dallas and San Antonio were
looking into similar operations.
“This (signal interception) is a
real death threat to this industry,’
he said.
Microwave broadcasters, who
charge subscribers for program
ming such as that produced by the
Texas Entertainment Network,
pay the Federal Communications
Commission for the license to use
their broadcast channel.
“It is the business of govern
ment to license these individuals
... then it’s also the responsibility
of the government to protect the
individuals who are licensed to do
it,” Kamin said.
The defendants face penalties of
five years and $1,000 fines on each
mail-fraud count, a year and
$10,000 on each unlawful inter
ception count and a year and
$25,000 on each copyright infring
ement count.
Bond has been set at $5,000 for
each person.
Collins criticizes Bentsen
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AMARILLO — Taking his new
ly announced campaign for the
U.S. Senate to the Panhandle,
Rep. Jim Collins, R-Texas, called
Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
the most active liberal in the
South and vowed to defeat him in
1982.
Collins, State Sen. Walter
Mengden and Don Richardson —
all candidates for the GOP Senate
nomination — participated in a
Republican-sponsored question-
and-answer session Saturday. Ab
out 150 people attended the rally.
The millionaire conservative
from Dallas promised the audi
ence one of the most exciting cam
paigns in Texas history saying it
will pit a conservative against a
liberal.
Collins aimed his remarks
squarely at Bentsen’s spending re
cord in Congress.
Collins charged that Bentsen’s
voting record during the past 10
years showed he voted against
only two of the 145 spending
appropriation hills.
“He talks like Herbert Hoover
and he votes like George
McGovern,” Collins said. “It is
with the support of the solid mid
dle class, who are being ham
mered by inflation and interest
rates, that I am today announcing
my candidacy for the United
States Senate.”
The 3rd District congressman,
who represents the conservative
belt dominated by Dallas, said:
“During my eight terms in the
U.S. House, I have consistently
fought for the conservative princi
ples of less government. Now I
want to continue that fight in the
U.S. Senate as Texas’ senator.”
Giving emphasis to his conser
vative orientation, Collins — re
garded as one of the most wealthy
politicians in Washington — said
Bentsen cast one of the two crucial
votes in the Senate to give away
the Panama Canal.
“Texans don’t want a senator
who will give away the Panama
Canal and weaken our national de
fense,” he said. “I believe I can
give Texas the strong, conserva
tive leadership it deserves.”
Collins said: “Lloyd Bentsen
issues press releases like he is a
conservative. But talking conser
vative and voting conservative are
two different things. ”
CLASS 82 MEETING
Tuesday, Oct. 27 7:30 p.m.
204 Harrington
Dr. Samson will speak.
Class Council picture will
be taken.
Will vote on elephant t-shirt design.
Claiming the support of the
American Conservative Union,
Collins said the group gave him a
rating of 97 percent as opposed to
Bentsen’s 37 percent.
The Friends of Jim Collins
Committee announced it had
raised $655,000 for Collins’ cam
paign and that efforts were under
way to raise more funds.
Asked why he voted against the
proposed sale of AW ACS planes to
Saudi Arabia in Congress, Collins
lashed out against the giant OPEC
oil producer and said Saudi Arabia
confiscated the oil interests of
Americans who helped make that
country a major oil producer.
“Besides, (the Saudis) are
financing the PLO (the Palestine
Liberation Organization),” Col
lins said. “They wouldn’t send an
ambassador to Egypt. They
wouldn’t even send a representa
tive to the funeral of (assassinated
Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat
who was one of the greatest states
men of this century. Before we can
have friendship, we need to recog
nize that it is a two-way street.”
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