Broadcasters are asking the Supreme Court to “confine...
Broadcasters are asking the Supreme Court to “confine consumers to outdated equipment and limit their access to lawful technology in order to protect a legacy business model,” said Aereo in a response brief filed with the high court Wednesday. Because…
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Aereo’s broadcast streaming is “available only to the individual user who created that recording, the performance is private, not public,” Aereo argued in the 100-page filing. Broadcasters “have no right to royalties at all for retransmissions of their content within the original broadcast market,” Aereo said. “Petitioners’ analysis flows from a false narrative about Congress’s intent.” In a released statement, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia said the case against his company was an attack on cloud computing. The Cablevision remote-DVR decision at the heart of the Aereo case “has served as a crucial underpinning to the cloud computing and cloud storage industry,” Kanojia said. “The broadcasters have made clear they are using Aereo as a proxy to attack Cablevision itself. A decision against Aereo would upend and cripple the entire cloud industry.” Amicus briefs supporting Aereo are due April 2.