They concern the behind-the-scenes way in which Aereo delivers television programming to its viewers' screens. They do not render Aereo's commercial objective any different from that of cable companies. Nor do they significantly alter the viewing experience of Aereo's subscribers.
This is completely wrong. Aereo delivers the content to screens that otherwise can't receive broadcast signals. That's a significantly altered viewing experience. Cable never did that.
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"Since the digital switchover, lots of people can no longer receive broadcast TV at all except through cable, rabbit ears or digital converters notwithstanding."
Do you have something to back that up because my experience is that most people now have access to more broadcast channels than ever before with superb picture quality.
The trick is now they have to get permission, which will be impossible to get, or too costly to make a profit - unless you want to pay $100/month to get freely broadcast channels on your phone.
The problem with calling them public utilities is that nobody actually needs cable television. It's a luxury. You can do without it, and it offers nothing that is essential to civic life. If the government needs to reach the public en masse, it can still do so through normal free broadcast over the airwaves.
All cable television really needs is competition.
However, providing internet service is a different issue, and I'd argue that internet could be considered a utility that everyone needs.
Copyright keeps lawyers employed, especially after the creator dies, when "the Estate" is usually managed by a lawyer. So lawyers have an incentive to write laws so that copyright terms last as long as possible.
When you charge Netflix more all you're really doing is taking money from Netflix customers who are already cable customers. Where do you think Netflix's money comes from. It the public that's paying at both ends. You pay for cable so you can use Netflix, then you pay for Netflix.
Why should all that money end up with the cable company as if Netflix provides nothing of value and the only thing that matters is the transmission of data. The data's just as valuable as the wire it's carried on.
If you're driving under the influence, why would you stop for a voluntary test even if you could get $60. How could they get any kind of reliable statistics from this?
There are five companies listed as managing DVD rights to that TV movie, and it's very likely it was sold as part of a bulk package for discount sales. I'll bet that not all of the films in that bin were public domain.
But the thing about copyright infringement is that it doesn't really matter until the copyright holder cares enough to try and stop it.
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This is completely wrong. Aereo delivers the content to screens that otherwise can't receive broadcast signals. That's a significantly altered viewing experience. Cable never did that.
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Do you have something to back that up because my experience is that most people now have access to more broadcast channels than ever before with superb picture quality.
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All cable television really needs is competition.
However, providing internet service is a different issue, and I'd argue that internet could be considered a utility that everyone needs.
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Once upon a time I could give a friend a copy of my CD, and nobody thought anything about it. It was a friendly thing to do.
Now I can give them a copy of ALL my CDs in a box no bigger than a cassette tape, but that's considered wrong and immoral.
So where do you draw the line?
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Why should all that money end up with the cable company as if Netflix provides nothing of value and the only thing that matters is the transmission of data. The data's just as valuable as the wire it's carried on.
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But the thing about copyright infringement is that it doesn't really matter until the copyright holder cares enough to try and stop it.
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