[mythtv-users] aereo

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, airdrummer <air_drummer at verizon.net> wrote:
> Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> Aereo is engaging in a public performance
>
> well, aren't they offering access to content for profit?

They claim to have been renting time on a DVR.  The customer got to
keep the recording they made with the rented DVR, but the charge was
not for the content, it was for the DVR rental.

> and isn't that exactly what a bar owner does?

There's some similarity, but I think that such requirements for
license fees to display live unencrypted broadcasts are silly as well.
But copyright law has been severely unbalanced for quite some time
now.  The people pushing for stronger copyright are those with money
on their side, so of course they get their way.

Eric