Its not licensed for anything. It is a broadcast signal that anyone with a reciver can view. Any restrictions beyond that seem completely artificial and unwarranted.

The law disagrees, though.

Perhaps but when people tell me something is illegal and therefore immoral I always respond with the fact that the holocaust was completely legal in germany.

So copyright holders enforcing their rights has any equivalence at all to mass murder? I'm going to go ahead and assert that your moral compass is more or less fucked.

Nobody said or implied that they have any equivalence. Please try to follow the logic of the arguments being made before being outraged at them.