While revenue growth was low in Q3 2012, CBS did demonstrate significant growth in its profits driven by cost controls and increasing contribution of high margin revenue streams such as digital licensing and re-transmission fee.
While the reasons for this makes perfect legal sense (many TV series only have the budget to licence incidental music for North America only, so no UK transmission without an extra fee) a generation are growing up with the expectation of being able immediately to get whatever content they want for minimal cost.
The Japanese case dates back to 2011 when Samsung filed a claim that Apple had use one of its data transmission techniques without paying a licence fee.