How has the distinction between broadcast and non-broadcast been rationalized - based on what criteria? After all, cable is basically a broadcast, just over a different medium. The intelligence is sent from one originating broadcast station, and multiple stations tune in to receive at the same time. The encoding may be different, but the principle is the same, as is the nature of the receiving capacitive. I'm no legal expert, but I know the technology well enough to know that cable is a signal broadcast over a wire medium. I suppose one could argue that cable has the ability to restrict reception, but so do non-wire mediums like satellite. The distinction between broadcast and cable seems not based on the actually nature of the activity. I must be missing something.