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Politics : The Supreme Court, All Right or All Wrong? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (2873)	4/22/2014 11:23:52 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 3029

snip: There are differences between the RS-DVR and Aereo—for example, that Cablevision had already paid transmission fees for the right to broadcast those shows on cable at all. Though the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in Cablevision, the broadcasters argue in their Aereo brief that the whole purpose of the RS-DVR system was to evade copyright laws. And courts usually don't like systems that circumvent copyright. Still, there's a certain broader logic to the Second Circuit's argument that's hard to ignore. Because otherwise, if every transmission of a private copy to a single viewer is restricted by the copyright act, cloud computing could be in peril. If you store any copies of copyrighted media in remote storage like a cloud, you could arguably be "transmitting" them every time you access them there. So the act of using cloud storage could amount to a series of infringing transmissions every time you watch or listen to something, even if you own it. gawker.com