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Bye Bye Aereo, For Now

Posted by timothy on from the boston-strangler-argument-sometimes-wins dept.

An anonymous reader writes It didn't take long for Aereo to deal with the realities of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. As of 11:30am EDT today Aereo is suspending operations while they go back to U.S. District Court. In order to keep good will with customers during this time, they are refunding the last month's payment for service. curtwoodward (2147628) writes to point out that the decision which has shut down Aereo for now doesn't mean doom for other cloud services: Don't listen to the trolls---the Supremes were very clear that their ruling only applied to Aereo's livestream and things that look just like it. iCloud, Dropbox and friends are fine.

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  1. Um by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they simply delay the stream by a tiny amount, even just a few seconds, the decision no longer applies, because then it becomes timeshifting on behalf of the customer, rather than live retransmission. Am I the only one who sees this loophole?I hope not.

  2. 57 channels and nothing on... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why do people waste so much energy on TV?