[mythtv-users] aereo

airdrummer air_drummer at verizon.net
Sun Jun 29 13:20:28 UTC 2014


jedi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 02:26:39PM -0400, airdrummer wrote:
>> Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>> Aereo is engaging in a public performance
>>
>> well, aren't they offering access to content for profit? and isn't that exactly
>> what a bar owner does?
> 
>     The bar owner is offering content to multiple people.That makes it a
> public performance.
> 
>     Aereo wasn't. There were old DVD rental shops that used a similar approach

but they were: having multiple copies of the same content is simply a new
implementation of the delivery technology. many bars & restaurants have jukebox
systems with individual consoles @ each table, but they still pay for those
public performances.

>     Calling a file transfer to a single person a public performance and then

calling a theft a donation is also dangerous;-\


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