Originally Posted By: peter

In theory, yes. But I think that in practice the onus is often on you to prove that you never use the built-in tuner. Which is, philosophically speaking, a difficult thing to prove. Though people have. This issue used to be a fertile source of pedantry flamewars on that fertile ground for pedantry flamewars, the Cambridge newsgroup cam.misc.


The onus is on them to prove you are using it to watch broadcast TV. If you have a tuned TV on the premises and they somehow got a search warrant (they need evidence of use for this), then it could be tricky, but if the TV was untuned they wouldn't get a conviction without other evidence.