Calm Down: Aereo’s Supreme Court Loss Isn’t Chaos for Cloud Tech
June 27, 2014
Grazed from Xconomy. Author: Curt Woodward.
After the U.S. Supreme Court smacked down online TV service Aereo for violating copyright law, worries instantly sprung up that the justices were putting a huge array of Internet and cloud-computing services at risk of similar treatment. That torch was carried highest by Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote for the court’s three-person minority that the Aereo ruling would “sow confusion for years to come.”
But Scalia was complaining mostly about the court’s decision to forgo a detailed legal test for determining a specific kind of copyright infringement. Media outlets—and some enterprising lawyers they’ve interviewed—have been more than happy go further, trumpeting the supposed fear and confusion that Aereo’s loss is heaping on Internet distribution technologies of all kinds…
The Guardian, for example, wrote that the decision "might evaporate Silicon Valley’s cloud," asserting that the ruling "seems bound to chill innovation in this burgeoning sector of the economy." Bloomberg said the court "leaves technology companies with few clues to guess whether their services would pass legal muster if challenged." The Boston Globe said "disagreement about what the Aereo decision really means for the cloud will likely persist for some time."…
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