Initially, radio, or wireless as it was more commonly called at the time, was an open field of hobbyists and early inventors and experimenters. Radio "piracy" began with the advent of regulations of the airwaves at the dawn of the age of radio. Pirate radio is sometimes called bootleg radio (a term especially associated with two-way radio), clandestine radio (associated with heavily politically motivated operations) or free radio. In other cases, a broadcast may be considered "pirate" due to the nature of its content, its transmission format (especially a failure to transmit a station identification according to regulations), or the transmit power (wattage) of the station, even if the transmission is not technically illegal (such as an amateur radio transmission). In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received-especially when the signals cross a national boundary. ![]() ![]() Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. REM Island was a platform off the Dutch coast used as a pirate radio station in 1964 before being dismantled by the Netherlands Marine Corps.
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