speaking about the unexpected;  FilmOn defeat could spell doom for Aereo

Court rules Internet TV provider infringed on broadcasters' copyrights
September 8, 2013 | By Jim Barthold

Aereo, which, to this point has had more lives than Rasputin, may have been fatally wounded when a federal court granted the wishes of broadcasters and filed a preliminary injunction against like-minded online TV provider FilmOn.

Pay TV service providers, meanwhile, have yet more reasons to be discouraged that the government is going to step in and do anything about retransmission fees that can--and often do--become contentious points of dispute between broadcasters and multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs).

In the most recent court action, three networks, ABC, NBC and Fox Television had argued that FilmOn was "violating their exclusive right to public performance of their copyrighted works," among other things, and asked the court to tell FilmOn to essentially stop it, according to a story in Broadband TV News. The court, located in Washington, D.C., essentially did that, basing its decision on copyright laws.

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