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Secondly what happened during the argument is aereos lawyer, david frederick, said the internet community was in his term freeblgd out by this case because of the potential effect on the cloud, about being able to store things on the cloud. what the lawyers for the broadcaster said is, yeah, but most things that people stick in the cloud, theyve already paid the copyright fee on, theyve created it themselves or downloaded it from someplace else like itunes, they paid the copy write fee. so the c...

And aereo said therefore it was not violating a provision of federal law that required people to pay copyright fees for public performances. what aero said is theres no public performance. this is just a one-to-one thing. the supreme court today said it is a public performance. aereo is making broadcast signals available to others without paying the copyright fee. tv programs, they said, are protected by copyright law. and its probably fatal to aereos business model. aereo could charge that copy...

Copyright fee. but aereo didnt seem to have much best is in that. its no secret the backers of aereo really had their ultimate sights on how cable tv programs were sold, and they hoped this case would bust that wide open. it appears thats not going to be the case. >> pete, weve got a few more big additiodecisions were expe over the next few days. perhaps the biggest among them is regarding hobby lobby and whether they can be mandated by the federal government to provide birth control coverage fo...

Love having you on the program. break down the aereo decision. aereo claimed it wasnt vif lating federal copy right laws. on what basis did the justices rule against them? >> they said aereo is wrong about that. theres a federal law that says if you retransmit somebody elses public performance, you cant do that without paying a copyright fee. first the supreme court said a television program is a public event. it is a public -- it is covered -- a public performance and is covered by the copyrigh...

Allowed people in certain cities that had the service to pay a fee and be able to watch broadcast tv signals on a mobile device, iphone, ipad, smart phone. you did that by aereo, when you logged in, assigning an individual tiny antenna to you and video recorder to you. aereo said that worked just like you do at home, it was just being done remotely. the supreme court didnt buy that today. they said aereo is violating the copyright laws. when the tv station broadcasts a signal, thats a public lic...