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.
Not exact matches
In a forcefully written dissent, Judge Denny Chin
said Aereo violates the Copyright Act and called the company's
individual tiny
antennas a «sham.»
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.