Pirate Radio Loopholes

Very interesting article! Why does the pirate act single out basically the FM and supposedly the AM band? Because that's where the corporations have the government "working" for them. They have all the money invested there and the NAB is a powerful lobby. The corporations have all the money in broadcasting in the enforced bands.
They don't care about much else. I don't know what's in the high frequency 5-10 mHz area but no one cares about that. What receiver would anyone be listening to that on anyway? Also why is there little citations in the 520-1710 klz AM band? Because first of all no one will complain about interference on AM as it's normal and expected. At night it's normal for 5 stations to be cramming in on one frequency, if one is a pirate it wouldn't matter and then there's the electrical noise that everything in everyone's home creates. Since no complaints, no visits. Secondly, at the AM frequency range interfering with other important things is not as likely.
This article demonstrates the corporations and their money can "buy" governments. They donate billions to government coffers in license fees and want keep everything out of "our" broadcast bands.

The reason that pirates in the 5-10 Mhz band (particularly just under the 40 meter amateur band, i.e., under 7 Mhz) aren't bothered much is that, even more so than the AM band, very few people use, listen and care about those frequencies, at least in North America.  It may be different elsewhere, I don't know.

It would certainly be forward thinking on the part of the FCC, Industry Canada and other governments to not let those frequencies go to waste.  Expand the amateur radio bands - they can certainly use the space.  Allocate space for unlicensed, shortwave broadcasting.

If you're going to own a radio at all these days, a lot already come with shortwave almost as a throw-in.  It certainly doesn't cost much more to get one with full coverage of shortwave, in any event.