Despite their best efforts to block it, it has proved popular in Iran, where satellite dishes are illegal and the state broadcaster dominates the airwaves.
BSkyB is a perfect example of controlling the endpoint of consumption: you need to have Sky's satellite dishes and Sky's receiver and Sky's encrypted card - tied to a subscription - to view it.
Among the shacks, though, rise three-storey brick structures with satellite dishes on their tin roofs.
Even some of the troglodytic hamlets of the rocky interior sport satellite dishes.