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re: Aereo: How can anyone argue this is anything other than theft?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:38 am to GeeOH
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:38 am to GeeOH
The television stations, and networks broadcast their signal for reception by anyone who has the appropriate antenna. In the 1970's people bought satellite dishes to receive the network signals as they bounced off satellites. The networks responded by encrypting their signals to protect their content. To this day it is illegal to access encrypted content without payment.
This is the same type of situation. The local stations continue to broadcast their signal for local reception. Aereo does nothing more than receive those unencrypted signals and then convert the signals to another frequency for redistribution to specific devices with antennae for the redistribution frequency within a household.
If the local stations are concerned about protecting their content, then they should do what the networks did over 30 years ago and encrypt their signals to restrict access.
This is the same type of situation. The local stations continue to broadcast their signal for local reception. Aereo does nothing more than receive those unencrypted signals and then convert the signals to another frequency for redistribution to specific devices with antennae for the redistribution frequency within a household.
If the local stations are concerned about protecting their content, then they should do what the networks did over 30 years ago and encrypt their signals to restrict access.
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Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:45 am to Poodlebrain
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The networks responded by encrypting their signals to protect their content.
I remember those days when the 8' satellite dishes came out. You could get the raw ABC/NBC/CBS feeds the network sent out to its affiliates. You saw news anchors picking their nose and playing grabass during commercial breaks. THAT's why the major networks encrypted.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:12 am to Poodlebrain
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This is the same type of situation. The local stations continue to broadcast their signal for local reception. Aereo does nothing more than receive those unencrypted signals and then convert the signals to another frequency for redistribution to specific devices with antennae for the redistribution frequency within a household.
If it only involved LOCAL stations re-broadcasting network content that is paid for by the local station, then Aereo should win.
From the sound of it, though, this Aereo antenna is able to process network feeds. Those are NOT set up to be free for local consumption.
Example: right now I pay ABC Cable Company $100 a month for 250 channels of content. A good percentage of that $100 dollars is distributed to the various networks I have chosen to pay for.
If I go out and get this Aereo thing, and only pay Aereo $8 a month for the same programming, then the networks are being harmed because no payment for their content is being made by Aereo for the rights to make the content accessible to the public.
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