210 1 210 2 will receive content from receiver 202 however any devices that belong to a different region will refuse to render its content before rendering localized content from a different region the networked device has to change the region it is associated with such a change is limited by rules in one embodiment the networked device can change the region it is associated with only a predetermined number of times in an extended embodiment the change requires explicit confirmation by the user the purpose of these restrictions is to make it hard for a networked device to switch back and forth between different regions the objective of these rules is for a networked device to be persistently associated with a region the licensing agreement for the underlying content protection scheme can be used to impose these rules on the device manufacturers if devices are produced that do not comply with these rules the renewability feature of the underlying content protection system can be used to revoke the non compliant devices fig3 shows a flowchart 300 illustrating the steps followed by the receiver to control the redistribution of content in a personal area network the receiver receives an atsc broadcast stream in step 302 the transport stream identifier is extracted from the stream in step 304 in step 306 a region identifier is derived using the extracted transport stream identifier and a tsid to dma mapping table the receiver retransmits the broadcast content to one or more devices residing in the same region in step 308 the region identifier is added to the retransmitted broadcast content a system and.