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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
Had not thought about that. In reality with this situation he would have no control over on and off except for the entire system. His actual thoughts whether legal or not was simply a value added item just as the apartment complexes here in Indy include cable with their rents. His increase in rents was mainly to cover expense of installing, maintaining and growing the channel list of the system.
Something to help give an advantage over other landlords. Personally I would liken it to a bar. He owns all the trailers just as the bar owner (for all practical purposes) owns the bar. You pay a little extra per drink for those 42 tv's running DTV. |
Of course it is my understanding that those bars generally are supposed to pay a higher subscription cost for DTV, etc, because they are allowing more people to view. I think at one time, there was some way they could tell if a bar had the proper subscription from watching the programming, and they had spies going around to bars threatening to sue if they were just didn't have the proper subscriptions.
Of course, I know that there are lots of sports bars who put FTA DVB feeds of preseason NFL games and other similar feeds, without paying any subscription, but I think that is a case of that if the copywrit owner wanted to go to the trouble, they could sue, but it isn't worth the effort, and in some cases they probably want the extra exposure. Ie I know that people could call some local TV stations and find out what sat/transponder the games would be on, and the local TV stations would give out the info.
I suspect that the trailer park owner wouldn't have any problem, mainly because it would be highly unlikely that any of the uplinkers would ever find out about what they were doing.... unless they did a google an came up with this thread. :-)
I'd think that if the raw sat signals were provided to each trailer, and a FTA receiver installed in each trailer, then perhaps it would be the individual tuning in the channels and there would be no problems, but if the owner receives the channels, then re-distributes each channel, I think there are copywrit problems.