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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by CWuestefeld on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @02:54PM (#7946027)
It's illogical, but not in a way that's fatal to copyright. If the broadcasters have control of the content, they can license its usage downstream as they see fit.

So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.

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Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf] by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @05:06PM (#7946755)
> So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.

Until you have a technology which is neither over the air transmission nor cable TV and there is no logical way to classify it as one or the other because the original distinction had no intelligible justification.

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