Someone needs to help me out with this one. If I put one of their antennae on my television, then could I watch the programming that that antenna picked up? I would guess that I could. So, then what if I had a wifi device that took that signal from the TV and sent it to all my other devices in my house. Did the Supreme Court just rule that such an arrangement would violate copyright laws?
yes it’s means anytime you pick up a signal and change to a different medium to tranport... the ruling it is a copyright violation.
I was part of the MAI Basic 4- Prime copyright case back in the 80’s.... look it up ....the court ruled that when you load a program from your hard drive into memory on your computer that was a copyright violation...
That's not the way Areeo works (er, worked). In their business model you "buy" an antenna that's hosted in some warehouse they own, and the signal received on that antenna is stored and available to you over the internet. It's essentially a way to pick up non-local programming through what Aereo thought was a loophole in the copyright laws.