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Feds Now Oppose Aereo, Rejecting Cloud Apocalypse Argument

Posted by Soulskill on from the maybe-cut-back-on-the-hyperbole-next-time dept.

v3rgEz writes "TV streaming service Aereo expected broadcasters would put up a fight. The startup may not have seen the Justice Department as a threat, however. The Justice Department has now weighed in, saying in a filing that it's siding with major broadcasters who accuse Aereo of stealing TV content. In its filing, the Justice Department noted it doesn't believe a win for broadcasters would dismantle the precedent that created the cloud computing industry, as Aereo has previously claimed. The case is expected to go before the Supreme Court in late April."

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  1. In other news.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The same Justice Department officials will soon leave to work for the various broadcast networks.

    1. Re:In other news.. by Desler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Many of them are already industry lawyers to begin with.

      http://www.wired.com/threatlev...

  2. Re:Those with the money by unitron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aereo is a public performance of copyrighted material. You cannot do that. You will get slapped.

    A public performance?

    You have every right to receive, for free, at no additional cost, any broadcast TV signal your antenna can bring in, and to record it on a DVR, and to have the DVR send it to the TV via Ethernet if you want to.

    This is just subcontracting the antenna, DVR, and Ethernet part out to someone else.

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