[opendtv] Networks Threaten To Pull Channels Off The Air If Aereo & Dish Win Lawsuits
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:54:22 -0400
Hilarious And Ridiculous: Networks Threaten To Pull Channels Off The
Air If Aereo & Dish Win Lawsuits
by Mike Masnick
Mon, Apr 8 2013
The entertainment industry has a long, long history of claiming that
if copyright law doesn't go their way, they'll all go out of
business. It's the adult version of "if you don't do it my way, I'm
taking my ball and going home." If court cases don't go their way, or
if the law isn't changed, we've been told over and over and over
again for the last century (and more frequently in the last two
decades) that the industry will take its ball and go home, because
they won't create under such awful circumstances (even if those
circumstances really aren't particularly different than they've
operated under for years). The latest? First, Fox's COO, Chase Carey,
claims that if they lose the Aereo case, they might shut down Fox,
the network TV channel, and move all its content to cable TV channels.
...
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130408/12161722625/hilarious-ridiculous-networks-threaten-to-pull-channels-off-air-if-aereo-dish-win-lawsuits.shtml
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