1. A device comprising: a managed wireless distribution network system configured to obtain parameters allowing the device to join wireless networks hosted by multiple additional devices in a managed wireless distribution network, the device joining a wireless network hosted by one of the multiple additional devices in order to transfer protected content between the device and the one of the multiple additional devices, the managed wireless distribution network system being further configured to identify, during a broadcast window, one or more of the wireless networks that the device can see, and provide to a network management service an indication of the one or more wireless networks that the device can see; and a content store configured to maintain portions of protected content that can be consumed by a user of the device only if the user of the device has permission to consume the protected content, and that can be transferred to ones of the multiple additional devices in the managed wireless distribution network regardless of whether the user of the device has permission to consume the protected content.