Boondockbill said:"Dude", I just got a year's worth of DNS, east coast feed, from my C Band programmer. And that's was 2-hours ago. Then called D* and they said it's an "agreement" between the networks and D*. So you see, it's not the "law" but rather closed-door, backroom politics.
What you aren't getting is that C Band isn't included in the law. And when did anyone believe what a CSR at D* says?