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A few months ago, one reader of this column e-mailed me a text-listing 'broken out' from some commercial station transmitting something out of the ordinary, and requested information on the station. I cannot recall what was special and was not the slightest bit interested. Perhaps it is time to say that such interception of commercial and private communications is illegal and always has been! The fact is now enshrined in European law as part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. Acting on such received information, (which certainly includes publishing it!) has always been illegal, but the position has now been refined.