The satellite angle he proposes at the end of the article is interesting but the dishes are one-way. Rooftop dishes don't broadcast up to the satellite. A request is made through a phone line and the content is then sent down to all dishes. Your dish then decodes the part that was meant for you. It works because the bandwidth of satellite broadcast is so fat, it can support the average of all of the customers at once.<p>China would not allow the uplink. Unless there is some new technology I'm not aware of, it won't work.