In the same case, the Supreme Court said that recording free over-the-air television is perfectly legal and does not violate copyright law.
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Aereo is based on a very simple idea: That over-the-air television, the kind one can get from a regular TV antenna, can be made available over the Internet.
"For most consumers, traditional broadcast media programming is now bundled with cable or satellite services, " he said, but the Federal Communications Commission's authority extends only to over-the-air television and radio content.
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The sheer size of the country, and the absence of public subsidies for transmission facilities, has meant that the quality of over-the-air television signals has been worse than in other rich countries.
The DoJ is encouraging the FCC to ensure that a majority of the spectrum being recovered from over-the-air television broadcasters in the 600 MHz. bands go to the two carriers with the largest swathes of upper band spectrum.
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What is clear is that the current procedures are simply not up to the job, and unless those involved come up with some forward looking pro-active plans, over-the-air television is going to be tied up in the courts for a long time as companies and consumers look to exploit the old-word rules with new-age technology.
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We read newspapers and watched over-the-air broadcast television.
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Starting with satellite, but moving on to cable and over-the-air broadcasting, the ability to transmit television programmes will thus become eight to 12 times greater and the number is rising.
Pearl then formed Mobile Content Venture (MCV) along with NBCU, FOX and Ion to commercialize a mobile television service that will use their stations' over-the-air spectrum to deliver TV programming directly to mobile and handheld devices.
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Cable-television operators must continue to carry the same broadcast channels that over-the-air viewers receive once those stations make their federally mandated conversion to digital signals in February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.
In Britain, says David Brennan, who heads research in the country for Flextech, a broadcaster, children in homes with cable or satellite television now spend two-thirds of their viewing time watching something other than the over-the-air networks, compared with just over one-third for adults.
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