Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Police are the only people upset about today's rulings. That says something.

June 25, 2014
Roger Yu and Mike Snider
USA Today 

Fans of streaming (click here) prime-time network TV live will have to wait a bit longer.

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Aereo, a start-up backed by media mogul Barry Diller, violated the copyrighted work of major TV networks by streaming their content to paid subscribers.

Each subscriber leases a small Aereo antenna that's stored in the company's warehouse, a point that Aereo emphasizes in differentiating its service from other streaming companies. The service has been available in 11 markets....

It is starting to look like the USA again, rather than a paranoid Neocon occupation. I expect there are going to be many, many more appeals with this decision, but, it was the right decision to make regardless. Anyone jailed on illegally obtained information is a threat to every American.

By Tony Perry

The U.S. Supreme Court (click here) decision Wednesday in favor of a San Diego gang member convicted, in part, based on information gathered from his cellphone without a warrant does not guarantee that he will be released from prison, the Stanford law professor who was part of his appeals team said.
But it will allow attorneys for David Riley to return to state appeals court in San Diego to argue that Riley deserves a new trial because his original trial was "tainted" because of the cellphone evidence that the high court says was illegally obtained, said professor Jeffrey Fisher.

Fisher, co-director of Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, said he and his students took up the Riley case because it was on the cutting-edge of privacy issues in the digital age....
Nowhere in my contract with a cell phone company does it say "Beware of government monitoring."
Americans can go back to their love affair with talking and illicit activities. Just talking about illicit activities is more fun than actually engaging in them. That is the primary reason I have a problem with FBI sting operations. They make it happen when before it never could.