"The Supreme Court majority opinion emphasized that they are not ruling on future technologies that are not before them at the
moment; and that given the limited nature of the holding the court does not believe this decision will discourage the emergence of use
of different kinds of technologies," he said by email.
Remote DVR services may be affected, but other technologies aren't covered by the ruling, he said.
"I do not believe that this decision makes it tougher in general to launch new innovative services," he said. "If anything, this case is a
lesson to new technology developers that if you build your business on a loophole in the law, similar to Aereo, your business may be
akin to a house of cards."
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