You no longer need to be in international waters to get away with illegal radio broadcasting: the net has provided new platforms to transmit signals and hide those producing them (Image: Universal/Everett / Rex Features)

YOU are chilling out to your favourite songs on your car radio, only to have them drowned out by an appalling, fuzzy din you didn’t tune into. It happens all too often in cities, where legitimate stations in the FM band lose out to pirate stations playing their own brands of music alongside brash nightlife advertising.

And this hijacking of the airwaves won’t change any …