On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Doug Fields <d...@flids.net> wrote: > I would think that that’s the entire purpose of the oral arguments and > briefs before the Court. If I were arguing a complicated case, be it a new > technology or any other sort of esoteric concept, I think it would be in my > best interests to find somebody who can translate those concepts into terms > understandable to a group of middle-aged judges, **because** they > shouldn’t be expected to have the working knowledge to understand the > subject beforehand. >
Pouring through the transcript now. Might have to switch to the audio of the oral arguments (I'm about 20 pages in and want to throw my laptop across the room), but the transcripts seem to back my perspective. From the first few minutes of the oral arguments, they've defined a cable company as a business that receives signals or programs broadcast by television stations. Justice Breyer compares "phonograph records" in a music store to a public performance. Then there's this from Justice Kagan, "if Aereo has the hardware in its warehouse as opposed to Aereo selling the hardware to the particular end user, that is going to make all the difference in the world as to whether we have a public performance or not a public performance," which illustrates that the concept of a nebulous cloud with non-localized storage is so far above his head it is laughable and sad at the same time. Both the military and the IRS have their own courts because the specificity of their laws require some knowledge to render opinions. I'm simply suggesting these people, wise as they may be in the law, don't comprehend the nuance of the technology they ruled against. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
