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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by danielweber on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:29AM (#7944554)
Aereo did their system in a way that very carefully conformed to the law

Except for it didn't.

If it's illegal to do X, but legal to do each of A, B, and C, and A -> B -> C does X, it's not surprising when X is illegal.

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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by pessimizer on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:57AM (#7944750)
What does X represent here?
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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by danielweber on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @12:40PM (#7945090)
Rebroadcast.
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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by pessimizer on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @01:01PM (#7945241)
Three justices disagree with you.
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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by danielweber on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:50PM (#7945992)
I regret engaging this point of the conversation since it was all going to come down to "but it wasn't unanimous!"
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