Aereo Ruling Sidesteps Cloud Computing Copyright Question
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As Aereo Inc.’s streaming-TV service was dealt a potentially fatal blow yesterday, the cloud-computing industry was more concerned about what the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t say.
The Supreme Court said Aereo violates broadcasters’ copyrights by selling programming online without paying licensing fees, regardless of its technology. Aereo uses cloud computing to let users watch TV shows: It collects over-the-air signals through antennas, stores the video on servers and delivers the live or recorded programs to customers through the Internet.