One of these shows a police officer pinning a guy to the ground with his knee so that he can cuff him (presumably after the guy already did something wrong and tried to resist arrest.) That is hardly what I'd call brutality.
I've seen full video for something like that. The person was compliant, but the police treated him roughly anyway, knowing that the abuse apologists like you would justify it.
There are plenty of good cops out there,
No, there are bad cops, and cops that cover for bad cops (and are thus, bad cops). There are no good cops. Well, maybe some rookies that are particularly dumb. But that's not hard, when there is a screening to get rid of smart cops, but none to get rid of dumb ones.
It's fundamentally no different from DirecTV which allows me to schedule recordings online.
It is fundamentally different from DirecTV because DirecTV has explicit contracts and permission. Many of the "questionable" services have agreements we don't know about. The ones sued don't.
The broadcaster is paying the fees for the content and getting nothing in return.
So if I turn on my TV and watch ABC over the air, I'm stealing by taking the content and not paying ABC for it? So far, every argument against Aereo is also an argument against watching broadcast TV live.
During an emergency, there is still nothing as efficient as broadcast for dissemination of information to the public. Broadcast has not and will not for a very long time become a "buggy whip". You may decide not to rely on or use it, but many many other people do.
There's still radio. Oh, and what's wrong with me setting up a PVR? Is that illegal as well? If not, why are you arguing that it should be illegal for me to pay someone to do something that's legal? LOL. I just though of the analogy. Aereo are TV pimps. It's ok if you get it for free, but if you pay for it, it's illegal, unless you pay the state-mandated monopoly. I can have sex all I want, but I can't pay for it. I can record TV all I want, but I can't pay someone to set it up for me.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
