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Merrill  ·  3797 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Aereo Loses In Supreme Court, Deemed Illegal

Not a lawyer but what if Aereo not only rented the antennas, but the actual real estate the antenna was mounted on. Would that now qualify as having the service replay from your own property? (meaning that you basically have ownership rights/use to the physical antenna your are using) From what I recall the killer was that this could be done if the service was done on site (your home) but being an external service it violated the rebroadcast rules. Better yet, not only do you have the rights of ownership of the antenna, its real estate, but rent the server space that your dvr occupies as property as a friend of mine does in the virtual world of "Second Life" and the transmission fees are picked up or included in those rentals and of course you are already paying re-transmission fees to your internet provider as nearly all of them use the same cable to dual broadcast cable tv along with the internet services. I am sure there are flaws involved in this line of thinking. you may have to watch the programming in some kind of virtual world application that 'sits' on your rented space as well. (my friend rents movies and watches television full screen in her virtual living room) and pays in virtual currency. All of this may be complicated, but seems easier than getting the entertainment industry to change their business model to keep up with the technology changes over the last few years.