Has anyone attempted this before?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo: …the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Aereo's services breached copyright laws. It ruled that, "viewed in terms of Congress’ regulatory objectives, these behind-the-scenes technological differences do not distinguish Aereo’s system from cable systems, which do perform publicly", and that "insofar as there are differences, those differences concern not the nature of the service that Aereo provides so much as the technological manner in which it provides the service."
Supreme Court (donors/lobbyists) simply didnt like the business model. 'these behind-the-scenes technological differences do not distinguish Aereo’s system from cable systems' means it doesnt matter how you provide content as long as end effect is similar to cable TV. Imo bad ruling.
Engineers often think the law is a computer program. You put the same inputs in and get the same inputs out. If you find a bug, then you can exploit that until the bug is fixed via a new version.
It's not. The spirit of what the law is supposed to do is far more important than the letter of the law.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zediva
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Inc....
> The court held that the defendants were transmitting and publicly performing the plaintiffs' copyrighted works, and thus granted plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction.