[opendtv] In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 19:47:56 -0400
In Aereo's wake, Fox targets Dish's TV streaming service
Broadcaster says Supreme Court ruling killing Aereo also dismantles
Dish Hopper.
by David Kravets
Ars Technica
June 27 2014
Having just buried broadcast streaming service Aereo under a Supreme
Court victory, Fox is invoking that high court precedent in a bid to
shutter another television platform.
Fox and others won a high-profile copyright case against upstart
Aereo on Wednesday, in which the Supreme Court held in a 6-3 vote
that Aereo was offering services akin to a cable company and
therefore needed the broadcasters' permission to retransmit their
content to online viewers. Armed with that decision, Fox told a
federal appeals court that the high court's decision means Dish's
Hopper DVR sideloading platform and the Dish Anywhere streaming
platform should also be declared illegal.
...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/in-aereos-wake-fox-targets-dishs-tv-streaming-service/
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