{"id":69104,"date":"2014-06-25T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=69104"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:32:11","slug":"aereo-ruling-supreme-court-votes-6-3-in-favor-of-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2014\/06\/25\/aereo-ruling-supreme-court-votes-6-3-in-favor-of-broadcasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Aereo Ruling: Supreme Court Votes 6-3 in Favor of Broadcasters, Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote<\/a> on Wednesday that upstart streaming-provider Aereo is violating broadcasters’ copyrights by redistributing their signals without consent. The ruling preserves the ability of the broadcast television networks to collect sizable fees from cable\/satellite providers that transmit their programming and avoids the potential exodus of major sports programming from broadcast networks to cable or pay-per-view outlets – a move that Major League Baseball, the NFL, and other leagues had threatened to make had Aereo won out in court.<\/p>\n

Aereo, the Supreme Court said in the ruling, is violating copyright laws by capturing broadcast signals on miniature antennas and delivering them to subscribers for a fee.<\/p>\n

Had the court ruled in Aereo\u2019s favor, several broadcasters had threatened to move their networks\u2019 programming to a pay-tv cable model \u2013 including sports programming. In addition, the NFL and MLB \u2013 as well as other leagues \u2013 had warned that they could transition their television rights to a cable or pay-per-view model should the court rule in favor of Aereo.<\/p>\n

Aereo is currently available in 11 major markets – including New York, Atlanta, and Boston – and had previously announced plans to expand to a more than a dozen additional cities. The future of the service, which uses thousands of dime-size antennas to capture television signals and streams them to subscribers’ mobile devices, computers and connected devices for $8-12 a month, is now very much up in the air. Despite raising more than $100 million in venture capital, Aereo CEO Chet Kanjia has openly spoken about the fact that the company has no plan B<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote on Wednesday that upstart streaming-provider Aereo is violating broadcasters’ copyrights by redistributing their signals without consent. The ruling preserves the ability of […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8197],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}