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[–]jmuguy -6 points-5 points


I know I'm in the minority here but I think Aereo is wrong. I think their entire business model is wrong and I don't blame the major networks for being upset. Of course the response from the majors has been childish at best but building an entire business model around reselling someone else's content without paying for it is wrong, whether or not its illegal.

And I say that as someone who's been pirating the hell out of things for years. But I'm not turning around and selling the shit I download.

[–]renational 16 points17 points


jmuguy - you may not understand how Aereo actually works. Aereo has tens of thousands of tiny AOE antenna. you pay to rent one antenna then tune and record whatever channel you want to watch to view later from their storage cloud in a storage space they allocated for your use only. if you watch one channel and record another, it's like renting two tiny AOE antenna. Aero is NOT reselling anyone's content - it's simply allowing you access to an AOE antenna, tuner, recorder from anywhere on the internet. this is exactly why the courts cannot find any licensing flaws with it.

the real core issue here is how content providers simply can't keep up with changing technologies, so they leverage the monopolies our government allowed them to create and go against the ever changing habits of their consumers. I really hope these cry baby networks abandon their free OTA license so society can put those airwaves to better use. If the FCC had balls and was not bought and paid for by the content monopolies, the FCC should say "if FOX stops broadcasting OTA in NYC, we will take back their free OTA spectrum and FOX will never get it back - period."