http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-aereo-layoffs-20141106-story.html

The article I read is about Aereo Inc., which is a company that broadcasts TV signals, being accused by the Supreme Court  for breaking copyright law. The company, since, has announced that it will be laying off employees. The controversy started in when the Supreme Court found out that the company was streaming "local TV stations’ signals over the Internet via remote antennas, charging customers $8 to $12 a month for the antenna and a cloud-based digital recorder." According to the supreme Court this violated the Copyright Act. The company said that they laid off 43 workers.

This is important because is shows how  there are many laws and guidelines the entertainment industry/ companies must oblige to. This article caught my attention because it said that Aereo Inc. was laying off its employees and I thought, to myself, I wonder why? In my opinion I think the employees should not have been laid off. The fault was done by the company by illegally broadcasting local TV signals; the workers were just doing their jobs. This shows me that there is a dark side to the entertainment industry. You could be working for a company that is illegally doing something and you might not know about. However in this case it is unknown if the workers laid off knew about the illegal activity. As a consumer/ filmmaker it makes me wary of the  entertainment industry, I mean if you company was conducting illegal activity, who knows if other may be doing so too.