[mythtv-users] aereo

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:44 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the
>> American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
>> Jack Valenti, MPAA President, 1982
>>
>> Somehow they seem to have survived.
>
>     It makes you wish you could make them eat those words every time they
> try to act like hysterical ninnies.

That's how I feel about the whole Aereo case.  Had the court ruled
that recording and repeating a broadcast, once per recording, was
legal, I doubt that would have been the death of CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX any
more than the VCR killed the movie industry.

Eric