Doesn't that just shift the argument to renting computation time?

Edit: Thinking on this I'd assume the whole argument is based on this whole sum of the parts thing. Obviously I wouldn't question if a machine shop is legal or any particular operation in making a gun is legal but I understand regulations on gun production as a reasonable law.

But then it comes to the sum of the parts thing I see Aero enabling a customer to do something legal he in theory could do already in an easier manner rather than broadcasting companies being screwed out of legitimate revenue (mostly because they don't offer equivalent services).

Why? If the stream is not HDCP (which currently it cannot be by law), then why does Aereo have a special obligation to treat the content as protected? Congress could end this whole debate by allowing broadcast DTV to require HDCP, which they have so far explicitly denied.

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