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by WarOnPrivacy 1743 days ago
CHIEF JUSTICE SCALIA: But his question is, is there any reason you did it other than not to violate the copyright laws?

It's awesome how Aereo's efforts to obey the law are what the court didn't like.

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Literally 2 lines below that quote is:

> CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: All I'm trying to get at, and I'm not saying it's outcome determinative or necessarily bad, I'm just saying your technological model is based solely on circumventing legal prohibitions that you don't want to comply with, which is fine. I mean, that's ­­you know, lawyers do that.