How to Watch Free, Live, Broadcast TV, On Your iPad, Right Now

The broadcast television networks only put their stuff on the web under very specific conditions, so this is exactly what they don't want: Free, live streams of their stuff, delivered to your iPad, via the browser.

At FilmOn.com, you can get streams of Los Angeles' local NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox affiliates. You can also get a few cable channels like CNN International. FilmOn is available on regular PCs as well, but with a download. How's it possible? FilmOn -- and ivi.TV which provides a similar service from Seattle -- says its OK, if you read Federal Communications Commission "secondary transmission" rules the way they do. The networks, of course, are expected to work very hard to shoot down that argument.