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Aereo Loses Copyright Fight
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:37 pm
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Big guys win for now, but they knew they had a threat in the form of Aereo.
ETA: I am a fan of challenging big cables model of paying for channels you don't want. Not necessarily saying I wanted aereo or anything.
Bring on a la carte cable for frick's sake.
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Aereo, currently in 11 markets, uses dime-sized antennas to capture over-the-air local TV broadcasts and feed them to users via the Internet. Subscribers pay an $8 monthly fee for the service. For an extra $4, users can get 20 hours of DVR storage, or for $12/month, 60 hours of DVR storage.
Big guys win for now, but they knew they had a threat in the form of Aereo.
ETA: I am a fan of challenging big cables model of paying for channels you don't want. Not necessarily saying I wanted aereo or anything.
Bring on a la carte cable for frick's sake.
This post was edited on 6/25/14 at 12:48 pm
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Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:39 pm to JumpingTheShark
Paying for over the air antennea channels is bullshite, glad they lost.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:41 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Big guys win for now, but they knew they had a threat in the form of Aereo.
So you're upset simply because "the big guys won?" Sounds like a shitty way to frame your point of view.
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Bring on a la carte cable for frick's sake.
Ahh, so you actually have some semblance of an argument based on the merits.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:46 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Bring on a la carte cable for frick's sake
The only way that would work would be to cap what TV networks can charge per customer. Otherwise, ESPN's fee goes from $5/subscriber to $25/subscriber.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 12:48 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Big guys win for now
Is that really the case? One of the potential ramifications I had heard if Aereo won was the Cable companies would see that as license to do the exact same thing and stop paying your local stations to broadcast their stations over cable.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 1:04 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Bring on a la carte cable for frick's sake.
I don't know why people don't get this but a la carte cable would be far more expensive in the long run.
If you think you are getting channels like ESPN for less than $100+ a month you are dreaming.
shite, a single PPV SEC game against an FCS school used to run upwards of $50. Now take all the sporting events that are on ESPN and recognize that ESPN would not sell you all that content for cheap.
This post was edited on 6/25/14 at 1:07 pm
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