[mythtv-users] aereo

[Simon Hobson]

airdrummer <air_drummer at verizon.net> wrote:

>> The customer got access to content which he would otherwise have received for FREE
> 
> otherewise they have 2 pay, also clear...

ISTM that what he meant was that the customer is entitled to legally get the content for free - just by sticking an aerial up and plugging in a tuner/PVR.

I can see where this judgement came from, but IMO what Aereo are/were doing isn't that much different to (say) the owners of an apartment block sticking up a communal aerial and housing a bunch of PVRs in some service space for tenants to access remotely from their individual apartments. In principal, all Aereo have done is extend the bit of wire between PVR and customer "a bit" - OK, so now it's a fairly long IP based virtual bit of wire, but from memory Aereo only allowed (in your own FTA area operations anyway.

Anyway, regardless of that, you've now got the judgement and it's not likely to change. The noose of the media industry has just tightened a bit more.