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danielweber on June 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Supreme court: Aereo is violating copyright law [p...

Aereo did their system in a way that very carefully conformed to the law

Except for it didn't.

If it's illegal to do X, but legal to do each of A, B, and C, and A -> B -> C does X, it's not surprising when X is illegal.

pessimizer on June 25, 2014 [–]

What does X represent here?

danielweber on June 25, 2014 | [–]

Rebroadcast.

pessimizer on June 25, 2014 | | [–]

Three justices disagree with you.

danielweber on June 25, 2014 | | [–]

I regret engaging this point of the conversation since it was all going to come down to "but it wasn't unanimous!"

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