Broadcasters Battle to Boot Live TV Service Aereo Off Internet [audio]

April 3 (Bloomberg Law) -- Subscription service Aereo allows users to both watch and record live broadcast television over the Internet. At just $12 a month, it could prompt cable subscribers to cut the cord, but first it will have to survive a legal challenge. Television broadcasters are suing the start-up, which is backed by lead investor Barry Diller, for copyright infringement. Bloomberg BNA Legal Editor Amy E. Bivins discusses the issues facing Aereo with Bloomberg Law's Josh Block.

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[privacyvideo4u]

only in NY huh?

[PhilLesh69]

Also, broadcasters cannot have it both ways. They spent years in court trying to force satellite providers to capture and reroute over-the-air local broadcasts, because they were being left out of a revenue stream.

Now they want to prevent another company from doing exactly the same, only over tcp/ip on smartphones.

Tea party, ancient executives, what is it about the intellectually bankrupt elderly in the US? They want ALL the money, everyone else can go screw themselves, logic be damned.

[PhilLesh69]

Quite frankly, the broadcast networks will lose this (unless they tamper with the judicial system) because the basic fact is part of the name of their industry: BROADCAST.

There are legal precedents about receiving signals that enter a property. If it is unscrambled, anyone can do whatever they want with the signal. If you put copyrighted material on that wave, that's your problem.

It would be like trying to arrest anyone standing OUTSIDE an open air theater for not buying a ticket.

[PhilLesh69]

This is typical of money grubbers and greedy sociopaths. They only see how they could lose money or power, and don't consider the law.

These assholes are using public airwaves to make billions of dollars, using frequencies leased to them by the federal government. They've lobbied for laws and regulations making it cheap for ongoing leases but prohibitively expensive for new competition to acquire frequencies. Now they aren't happy somebody else might make a buck.