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Are you suggesting that it should be illegal to rent an antenna via a recurring fee?

If it's bundled with a service that streams over the air broadcasts via the internet to wherever you happen to be, then yes.

So it would be ok to by the equipment, then occasionally pay for repair when it breaks? What is the dividing line that would make buying and paying for repairs ok, but not renting?

"bundled with a service that streams over the air broadcasts via the internet to wherever you happen to be"

The equipment I talked about above includes a server which can be used by the renter to server the signal from the antenna to themselves.

So an end user could log on to their server tap into their antenna and watch whatever the antenna was picking up. They could install dvr software to their server if they needed to record shows and play it back latter.

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