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Re:A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fal... by laserlight on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:55PM (#28568703)
> "Cloud DVRs are OK but only if the kernel, filesystem, and hardware take great pains to ensure separate physical storage locations for and no compression on each customer-created copy" is absurd and no judge is going to go for that.

Reminds me of Aereo, the company that rented remote antennas to customers so that they can stream over the Internet what their antennas captured. Supreme court decided that they were violating copyright law [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/supreme-court-pu...

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Re:A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fal... by Nasrudith on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:09PM (#28570921)
To put it in other terms it didn't fall, it was slammed to the ground.
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Re:A $795M analogy: Locast, broadcast copyright, and the fal... by laserlight on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:06PM (#28568843)
I just noticed that Aereo was already part of the discussion.
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