Friday, April 25, 2014

Television in America - The bandit of broadcast

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21601285-supreme-courts-decision-aereo-may-affect-more-tv-business-bandit

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Many are watching the case to make sure the verdict does not imply that it is piracy to transfer any sort of content via the internet without a licence from whoever owns the copyright to it. That could be costly for firms that store media files in the “cloud” for paying clients, such as Apple and Google. As Stephen Breyer, one of the Supreme Court justices, said in this week’s hearing, “What disturbs me…is I don’t understand what the decision for you or against you…is going to do to all kinds of other technologies.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304065704577424373775083522