Its a win for the networks, but heres the important part; Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, and was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito. Scalia wrote that Aereo “does not perform ‘publicly’ at all. The Court manages to reach the opposite conclusion only bu disregarding widely accepted rules for service-provider liability and adopting in their place an improvised standard (‘looks like cable TV’) that will sow confusion for years to come.” The court tailored this verdict extremely narrowly, saying it only counts toward this one case in this one circumstance. I shudder as I say this, but... Scalia is right. You dont get to interpret the same rules in two different ways for two different industries. This is the Supreme Court picking sides in a private dispute in a manner which will inevitably yield more lawsuits. Of course, thats not why Alito, Scalia, and Thomas ruled the way they did; they did it to shit on Hollywood, land of the liberals. As I predicted six months ago.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:57:52 +0000
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