Does Aereo Decision Have Cloud Computing Implications?
June 25, 2014
Grazed from TechZone360. Author: Gary Kim.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo violates copyright law. Some say the ruling effectively kills Aereo and similar business models. Others might argue that what the ruling effectively kills is any business model that does not involve paying licensing fees to local broadcasters for the right to retransmit local broadcast signals, as routinely is done by cable TV, satellite TV and telco TV providers.
In essence, any future “retransmission” service similar to Aereo, but paying licensing fees to local broadcasters, would resemble the earliest cable TV systems, which simply retransmitted distant market TV signals to rural areas that could not receive the signals over the air. The business problem, for any future Aereo-style off-air signal retransmission service, is that such features already are provided by linear video distributors. So there is no unmet market need…
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