One of the problems with all of this is that location gets very tricksy. They say you need to be in NYC for Aereo to work. The problem is, there's no good way

One of the problems with all of this is that location gets very tricksy. They say you need to be in NYC for Aereo to work. The problem is, there's no good way to verify that.. Aero seems to be using HTML5 location, which can be bypassed by setting geo.wifi.uri in Firefox pretty trivially. (I know they ask for Safari, but you can also change user-agent) Even if they used IP (which is a huge mess!), you could bounce through a proxy. The problem is the internet does NOT have a reliably way to determine where someone is. This goes all the way back to the Yahoo/France Nazi memorabilia issues back in 2000. We have hints, and suggestions at where people are, but not hard and fast proof. For technical and social reasons, this is unlikely to change- So having laws based around restricting things to certain geographic areas is never going to be a long-term solution.