"it is legal to sell, but not legal to use."
No, it's not snow.
Apparently the Netherlands finally approved the sale of small FM transmitters for our iPods, so you can listen to your own music in the car, without fiddling with all kinds of wires and stuff.
Except that in the Netherlands one is not allowed to broadcast something, even if intended for personal use, across the FM band.
I haven't heard of any legislation that would soon end this ban, but apparently selling these nifty little gadgets is already going on. (in fact isn't Holland a little bit behind the times?)
Now, what I want to know is:
- the average iPod FM transmitter has a range of about three to five meters. Can someone actually pick this up if not in the immediate vicinity?
- if this kind of FM broadcasting remains banned, are you then left with a useless gadget? would you not use it anymore?
1 comment:
Last thing I read about this (few weeks ago) was that new European rules are set up for this. If I remember correctly this would be a matter of months. In the mean time it will be tolerated in our famous Dutch way.
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