Illegal unlicensed pirate radio has been part of the airwaves from the first days of regulation. ‘Radio pirates’ initially were those who refused or failed to pay for a license to listen to radio while in later years it has referred to those who have broadcast without a licence. Pirate radio especially in the western world has been a commercial success and has created a radio industry once the preserve of state monopolies. In 2010, the British regulator OFCOM[1] claimed that some UK land based p...