Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf]
by harryh on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:24PM
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Welcome to the world of common law. It's not source code with precisely defined rules. It's a set of values adjudicated by judges attempting to issue rulings that most would consider fair.
Re:Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [pdf]
by davorak on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @11:44PM
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> It's not source code with precisely defined rules.
I do not see anyone making the argument that it is.
> It's a set of values adjudicated by judges attempting to issue rulings that most would consider fair.
belorn is offering arguments/evidence that an unfair decision was reached by the court in this case.
I would ask what law grounds the definition of the black box. If one would try to do the same to a illegal content hosted on a website, where should I start drawing this box? At my ISP, since it is the edge where I as a customer receives the content? At the websites ISP, since it is the one that broadcast the content? The coo-location of the server, as it is there that the mechanism for broadcast is happening? The hardware, which produced broadcast? Or is it the person who acted on the machine in order to create the broadcast?
As with a onion, each layer covers the internal workings of the next one. The actual functionality being provided (ie content) is the same at each step.