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Aereo tried essentially this, with thousands of TV antennas for their "broadcast TV over the internet" scheme. They lost, and no longer exist.


Zediva tried essentially this. DVDs, players, internet.

Aereo was significantly different, because there was no copyrighted material being rented. They were renting out servers, and the servers made per-user recordings. Aereo got super screwed over too, because the supreme court said they were 'basically' a cable company, and then they weren't able to get cable company style mandatory licensing either.




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