The courts are full of old and lazy lawyers and politicians who cannot see the future because they're fixated on the past, and this court in particular clearly favors the established oligarchs.

The Aereo ruling was expected because the case law applied to the similar business models in cable and satellite has become well established and definitive. Why think about the nuance when you can copy and paste.

Unfortunately, as history teaches us the sharing economy online should brace for impact as overzealous businesses based on the old exclusionary capitalist models attempt to extend their control over any and all use of their copyrighted material anywhere by anyone, including individuals.

Of course, history also teaches us that such overzealous and intrusive exercises of power are the death throws of dying regime, an obsolete philosophy whose era is ending.

So, be not faint of heart, creative sharers, our time will come. Their age will pass.

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Unless, of course, you're crossing the border where the constitution has been suspended indefinitely making all searches, seizures and detainments magically permissible.

Apparently, the borders, real and virtual, exist in a magical fold in time and space created by theoretical law and applied with unbounded military force.

Whoever said America is no longer on the creative cutting edge of reality just doesn't understand - America had boldly gone beyond it.