The cobbler however, which to be clear, is a dish in which a fruit filling is topped with spoonfuls of a loose scone-like or biscuit topping and baked so that the top resembles golden cobblestones, was born right here on American shores.
And just last week, Dish Network made clear that its planned acquisition of spectrum from TerreStar will allow it to offer a competitive mobile broadband service.
Both the Aereo and Dish technologies rely on the 1984 Supreme Court holding in the Betamax case, which made it clear that consumer recording technology, in that case the VCR, is legal if it has uses that do not infringe copyright law.