Redditor here. I think this just goes to show how fighting the copyright system is futile. Better focus on doing the right things instead of doing things right.
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The Next Chapter
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#12I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight.
Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world.
Despite the fact that it didn't work out, I respect teams like this with ambitious goals that put everything on the line without compromise. Kudos to the team and investors that supported Aereo.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tips fedora and upvote for visibility? Oh boy.
That is our inside joke. My fellow redditors will understand.
I'm also a reddit user.
The problem is your post is contentless, and adds nothing to the conversation.
I also notice on Reddit, where there X1000 replies to a post, %90 of them are "me too" or variants on that. So, I end up reading Reddit's main tech forums, but come here to post.
* Well, except this: http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-... ~~ Thalmic is banned to be discussed in HN. So I posted it there instead.
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#14Redditor here. I think this just goes to show how fighting the copyright system is futile. Better focus on doing the right things instead of doing things right. tips fedora
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#15Redditor here. It was about time. tips fedora Edit: why the downvotes? Please upvote for visibility. Edit2: come on guys, 4 downvotes, why? Explain before blatantly downvoting.
You're being downvoted because your comment adds nothing to the conversation. Hacker news tries to maintain a high signal to noise ratio.
It looks like we have some trolls in here. Not very good ones.
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#16I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight. Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world. Des…
Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack. Tragic it didn't work out.
The Blockbuster analogy is frankly insulting to people who built real technology for video delivery. Blockbuster went bankrupt because technology made their middle-man position obsolete. In contrast, there is nothing obsolete about making content. Even in the face of modern technology that makes content creation cheap, peoples' demand for high-quality studio content is higher than ever.
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#17I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight. Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world. Des…
" ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die"
But here's the thing. They still have to do that
TV viewing is at an all-time low. Broadcast TV has a different business model than Cable, but viewings have been going down for both.
Aereo's was too much a bet for too small of a win. "Now you can watch open TV on the internet" Any broadcaster could decide to do this in house and it's done, no Aereo needed.
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#18I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight. Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world. Des…
Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack. Tragic it didn't work out. The Blockbuster analogy is frankly insulting to people who built real technology for video delivery. Blockbuster went bankrupt because technology made their middle-man position obsolete. In contrast, there is nothing obsolete about making content. Even in the…
>Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack.
Tons of legal businesses are built upon the same concept, especially in media distribution.
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#19I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight. Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world. Des…
Except that Chapter 11 is a reorganization, not a liquidation. Aero are planning some level of operations going forward. Though the posting seems to suggest there's not a lot in play.
Curious.
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#20I listened to a talk by an Aereo exec at SXSW and he made it clear then that there was no plan B. This was an all or nothing fight. Unfortunately the Supreme Court squashed them, but they really could have changed the world had the ruling gone the other way. ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die like the Blockbusters of the world. Des…
" ABC, NBC, CBS, and all the other broadcast networks would have had to change their business model and adapt or slowly die" But here's the thing. They still have to do that TV viewing is at an all-time low. Broadcast TV has a different business model than Cable, but viewings have been going down for both. Aereo's was too much a bet for too small of a win. "Now you can watch open TV on the internet" Any broadcaster c…
In-house is the problem. I don't want 200 separate media apps.