This is why ALMA consists of an array of
many individual antennas spread out over a very large area, working together in what is known as an interferometer.
Individual antennas in system transmit, in sequence, a weak microwave signals through the brain, while the other receiving antennas measure the reflected signals.
In ABC, Inc., v. Aereo, Inc., the Court will decide whether Aereo «publicly performs» television programs it streams over the Internet to users
from individual antennas.
Chin said the company is able to broadcast things like the Super Bowl live to tens of thousands of subscribers because each subscriber has
an individual antenna and a unique copy of the broadcast, thus enabling it to be considered by some in the eyes of the law as a private performance rather than a public one.
Judge Denny Chin called Aereo's setup a sham and said
the individual antennas are a «Rube Goldberg - like contrivance» — an overly complicated device that accomplishes a simple task in a confusing way — that exists for the sole purpose of evading copyright law.