Tectonic place-shifting

Reuters offers a great look at the issues and implications of technology that lets you place-shift your media so you can, say, watch your favorite TV shows anywhere on the globe.

Yup, it's yet another big threat to established media business models:

Place-shifting is problematic to many copyright holders because it sidesteps what is known in legalese as proximity control, which restricts the distribution of content to specific regions and times. It's a standard contractual stipulation for the Motion Picture Assn. of America, whose member studios license distribution rights to movies for distinct territories; the National Football League, which considers geographic limits the linchpin of lucrative television deals, including its Sunday Ticket pact with DirecTV; and local television stations, which pony up millions of dollars for exclusive territorial rights to all kinds of programing.