Aereo’s system for streaming broadcast TV is “manipulative...
Aereo’s system for streaming broadcast TV is “manipulative technological exploitation,” said The Media Institute in an amicus brief filed Thursday in Aereo’s case at the U.S. Supreme Court (http://xrl.us/bqoacj). Aereo’s system of small individual antennas “violates broadcasters’ rights under copyright…
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law and is merely a blatant attempt to avoid paying licensing fees,” said TMI in a news release. Aereo poses “a massive threat to the settled economic and legal arrangements that undergird the broadcast industry,” and the high court should overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision in Aereo’s favor, TMI said.