Comment Re:online DVD rental service (Score 1) 42
As I understand the law from previous readings, it is legal to rent or buy an antenna and install it on land you rent or own, but it is not legal to rent or buy access to an antenna on land you neither rent nor own.
Think of the scenario of living at the bottom of a hill that blocks access to all the TV signals from the nearby town. If the guy who owns the top of the hill installs an antenna and runs a cable down to your property line, he can't sell you access to that cable. Likewise, you can't buy an antenna and install it on his property, and run your own cable to your property. (As I understand the law, stupid as it may be.)
What you might be able to do is rent 10 square feet of land on the top of the hill, and sign an access agreement to that land for you and your cable. Then you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with those ten square feet (subject to your rental agreement) including install an antenna. This wasn't aero's business model so it wasn't explored by this case. Of course, in a city there may be laws that limit where and how sub-parcels of land can be rented. I suspect someplace advertising themself as "roof top storage units with gigabit Ethernet connections) would be legal even if you happen to install an antenna and network-controlled DVR in them. Hard to know.