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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Anthony,<br><br>I followed both the Optus Now and the MyTVR cases in Australia.<br><br>Just when you think Australia is a reasonably sized evolved commercial market you see how the judicial system falls on the side of favorites…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cheers,</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dean</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Giggins<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 02, 2014 11:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtv-users] aereo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 1 July 2014 02:28, Gary Buhrmaster <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:58 PM, R. G. Newbury <<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org">newbury@mandamus.org</a>> wrote:<br>.....<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>> The customer got access to content which he would otherwise have received<br>> for FREE.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Congress, in their 1976 overhaul of Copyright, changed<br>the laws regarding OTA. The "Must carry" and<br>"retransmission consent" alternatives were codified<br>in the rules. Those changes in the law actually<br>overruled a SCOTUS decision that would (today)<br>have allowed Aereo to exist. You reap what you<br>sow.<br><br>The Aereo decision was one of those cases where<br>SCOTUS appears to have deferred to the explicit<br>will of Congress (SCOTUS sometimes has to discern<br>the will of Congress (or the framers of the Constitution)<br>based on words that never mean what you think they<br>mean, and sometimes has had to make up the will of<br>Congress and establish new public policy). As a<br>matter of law, I think this decision was properly<br>decided (and it was essentially 9-0 on the issue<br>of whether Aereo was in violation, the dissents were<br>just on how to decide between direct and indirect<br>infringement). As a matter of good public policy,<br>this decision is less good. But that is the fault<br>of existing copyright law, not the decision itself.<br><br>That (many of) the copyright laws predate current<br>technology is not in dispute. That (many of) the<br>copyright laws currently support existing business<br>models is not in dispute. That changes should be<br>made is not usually in dispute either. What changes<br>should be made (i.e. whose ox to gore) is always in<br>dispute. Given the money involved, any changes in<br>laws are going to have to see a groundswell of public<br>opinion. And such swells have a tendency to<br>dissipate with a bit of time.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Sounds very much like the Optus TV now in Australia<br><br><a href="http://www.optuszoo.com.au/tvandvideo/optustvnow">http://www.optuszoo.com.au/tvandvideo/optustvnow</a><br><br><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/business/optus-to-shut-down-tv-now-after-losing-appeal-20120907-25ijm.html">http://www.smh.com.au/business/optus-to-shut-down-tv-now-after-losing-appeal-20120907-25ijm.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anthony<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>