[mythtv-users] Court rules commercial-skipping in recordings covered under Fair Use

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/24/2013 08:57 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> A cable company
> may *not* just pick up the OTA signals and rebroadcast them(*).
...
> (*) For the moment, we will ignore the Aereo case.  Too
> early to know where that goes (in court).

Hehe.  I was just going to say, "which is the whole basis of the Aereo 
case."  The best part of this case, though, is that now Time Warner is 
telling CBS--who wants TWC to pay 6x as much for permission to 
rebroadcast CBS channels--that if CBS doesn't accept TWC's proposed 
retransmission fee and chooses to refuse to allow TWC to retransmit the 
CBS content, TWC will recommend that all its users sign up for Aereo.  
Talk about twisting the thorn in CBS's side.  :)

That said, Aereo says they're not rebroadcasting since they have an 
antenna for each user of their service.  However, one has to wonder just 
how much they'd actually be able to pick up with an antenna that's 
(literally) the size of a dime.  I know my 12'x16' antenna has a 
challenge picking up some of my channels, at least some of the time.  If 
they're really using those dime-sized antennas (antennae for you Brits, 
but I specifically mean the metallic type, not those on insects), I 
would love to get my hands on that magic.

Mike