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posted by Dopefish on Friday February 21 2014, @12:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger dept.

Fluffeh writes:

"Although there are arguments scheduled for 22 April in the Supreme Court, US District Judge Dale Kimball of Utah ruled against Aereo which effectively bans it in Utah along with the rest of the 10th Circuit, which includes Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

Kimball ruled that Aereo's retransmission of Plaintiffs' copyrighted programs "is indistinguishable from a cable company and falls squarely within the language of the Transmit Clause." He didn't buy Aereo's argument that its system of renting a tiny antenna to each customer allows it to avoid the "Transmit Clause" of the 1976 Copyright Act, which determines what kind of "transmissions" of copyrighted material must pay licensing fees."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by joshuajon on Friday February 21 2014, @01:54PM

    by joshuajon (807) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:54PM (#4288)
    There was a similar service shut down in 2011 called Zediva that was streaming movies. They argued that having a physical DVD player and a disc dedicated to each stream meant that they were no different from a traditional rental service. This Arstechnica article [arstechnica.com] goes into more detail and cites early precedent about a similar system using VHS to distribute PPV movies in hotels.
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