Can someone who has been following this story break down the practicalities of the current judicial environment for services like this? Not black and white answ

Can someone who has been following this story break down the practicalities of the current judicial environment for services like this? Not black and white answers, just the general consensus. I know some others like boxee [1] are trialing services like this in some markets. From a bootstrap/startup/DIY perspective what seems to be the current known framework? 1) content needs to be over the air 2) customer needs to be inside the content's broadcast area 3) needs to be a 1:1 correlation of receiver/antenna to viewer those are my baseline understandings, are there any I missed I wonder if anyone has any knowledge or informed opinions about: What is the broadcast area? Is that a regulatory definition, or is it determined by if you can easily recieve the signal, or could it be anyone who could receive the signal even if using sensitive equipment and directional antennas What would be acceptable in terms of customer is in the broadcast area? Credit card billing address? Physical mail sent? IP geolocation? mobile gps result? Obviously you can compress the signal, but what about tampering with it? Would adding a scroll or bumpers to the stream change the legality? Is this all based on live transmission only? Would store and forward (ie cloud dvr) change the picture? Is there anything about charging that changes things? It could be free, no? What about subscribe vs. pay per use? I realize this is a highly fluid situation, I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts or insights thats been paying attention. [1] http://www.boxee.tv/dvr http://www.boxee.tv/dvr cloud dvr, stream live tv to multidevice - launched in some markets.