Due to the popular demand of wireless transmitters that are used for iPods and such, OFCOM has decided that they will make exemptions for some of these devices to allow them to be sold legally in the UK. For some time now these devices that are used to transmit the signal from your iPod to an FM station on your radio that was not in use, was illegal to be bought due to their nature of overriding the FM transmissions of actual stations.
As of December 8, these transmitters will be legal to be bought in the UK. Though they have been available for some time online, they have not been allowed to be sold in stores. As another concession to user popularity, OFCOM has also decided that there will no longer be a license needed to use Citizen’s Band radio. Not all wireless transmitters will be approved by OFCOM. Those that are approved will have a little CE mark on them, showing that they are approved for sale in the EU.
I guess this shows that if a product is popular enough, it can change laws. Call me optimistic, but if enough politicians in the US knew how to use a video iPod, I bet the DMCA would go out the window :D. Cause if not, they would be breaking the law every time they put their fav movie onto their iPod.
