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Re: It's not stealing said by morbo:Commercials are transmitted with Aereo, so how exactly is this stealing? It's only stealing if antenna users are also stealing.
OK so let's think of it another way.
Let's say an ice cream truck is giving away free ice cream. You come up and you get as much as you want.
But then you decide to break into the ice cream store (owned by the same company) and simply take as much as you want.
Is the latter stealing or not?
Another thing is that I can see Aereo's workaround as being clever and proper but it really does defy the laws of physics. How does a dime sized antenna in an electrically noisy datacenter pick up anything? |
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| That's a terrible analogy. Ice cream is a finite resource. OTA transmissions are not. |
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 badtripI heart the East BayPremium
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No. To use your ice cream analogy, it's like the ice cream truck driver is charging his customers a fee for ice cream that the ice cream company just leaves out on the sallyport with a sign that says "Free". |
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SMH. I have no words to describe that horrendous analogy. Anyway, I'm willing to bet all the ice cream in that truck that Aereo will win in court, again and again. What are they losing? Absolutely nothing! Just another attempt to hold onto an old, outdated, lacking imagination and use of relevant technology to reach the customers. They're pissed they did not come up with it. |
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 r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
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Your analogy is funny.
Aereo does not offer 1 TV channel. They only lease you an antenna, a tuner, and a DVR. You only get the channels that your leased antenna picks up.
As for your ice cream truck, it would be like if Aereo leased you an ice cream truck and you went to a store and bought ice cream to fill the truck with.
You lease the truck so you can fill it with anything that is legal.
With Aereo you lease the antenna so you can watch any free OTA channels that it legally picks up.
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said by fifty nine:Another thing is that I can see Aereo's workaround as being clever and proper but it really does defy the laws of physics. How does a dime sized antenna in an electrically noisy datacenter pick up anything?
Are they really in the datacenter or merely on the roof or in a window? Then again given the NYC market and that most broadcast from the Empire State Building or Secaucus I would think you could pick up the signal just about anywhere. |
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