Say it ain’t so! Online streaming service Aereo Inc. has recently filed for bankruptcy. But fellow online streaming service FilmOn Aero.tv, a division of the company, seems to be trucking along.
TV Mix states that Aereo’s founder Barry Diller and FilmOn founder Alki David came to an accord of sorts after a heated legal battle over the two men’s similar services. But now that Aereo has filed for bankruptcy, one has to ask what led to it and why Aero is still going about its daily business.
One of the biggest differences between FilmOn and Aereo is that FilmOn has a much larger store of streaming content. “[U]nlike Aereo, FilmOn…has a vast library of licensed content from global media sources, which it streams or offers through its own on-demand library,” states Litigation Daily. “That business continues while it wages its legal and regulatory battles on multiple fronts.”
FilmOn offers over 40,000 video-on-demand titles, making it one of the best providers for on-demand content. FilmOn also features exclusive content as well as original programming that can’t be seen anywhere else.
FilmOn is also going by the point of view of the Surpreme Court that streaming services act like cable providers. Litigation Daily states that FilmOn’s copyright filings have also been accepted by the U.S. Copyright Office on a provisional basis while the legal battles between FilmOn and television networks work itself out.
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