"Court backs Internet firm that offers broadcast TV" by Larry Neumeister | Associated Press, April 02, 2013
NEW YORK — Aereo, an Internet company offering inexpensive live broadcast television feeds to computers, tablets, and smartphones, doesn’t violate US copyright law, a divided federal appeals court said Monday....
Then neither should this blog. I paid for that printed paper smelling up my desk!
Broadcasters including Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and others had sued....
Can't say I'm sad the ma$$ media lost. I gue$$ the lies, distortions, and other agenda-pu$hing items have gotten to me. No $ympathy.
The ruling came in a preliminary stage of the case in federal court in Manhattan. More evidence must be presented to a lower court judge before she issues a final decision. Other legal challenges have been filed elsewhere against a budding industry that stands to challenge the dominance of cable or satellite companies that offer their licensed programming to consumers....
Broadcasters have said in court documents that allowing Aereo to proceed without licenses could threaten the ability of broadcasters to produce marquee sports or awards show events, including the Academy Awards and the Grammys....
Oh, no, they are going to take away all the di$tractions of sports and award shows. Whatever will we do, except maybe gather together as people like they used to and go find something to protest. It happens when a ruling class has hollowed out and impoverished a country, as past history has provided.
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I didn't watch it anyway.
In a majority opinion written by Judge Christopher F. Droney, the appeals court said the Barry Diller-backed Internet company does not appear to violate copyright law because subscribers are assigned to their own tiny antennas at Aereo’s Brooklyn data center. The antennas grab free over-the-air broadcasts, and Aereo streams the video to subscribers over the Internet.
In a forcefully written dissent, Judge Denny Chin said Aereo violates the Copyright Act and called the company’s individual tiny antennas a ‘‘sham.’’ He said the company’s system was a ‘‘Rube Goldberg-like contrivance, over-engineered in an attempt to avoid the reach of the Copyright Act and to take advantage of a perceived loophole in the law.’’
Dennis Wharton, executive vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, said the group was disappointed....
I am with your programming, but do you care?
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