So far 54 % of the poll voting indicates that those individuals can get the net's
by subscribing to locals with Dish or by OTA which means that they should not of been eligible for Distants in the first place(unless of course they all had waivers for every single network).
You could be eligible for a DMA and still be eligible for Distants.
You also could have been grandfathered.
Of course the claim in court, was that 50% of those subscribed were not eligible.