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A Supreme Court decision concerning race and college admissions. It's our first story today on CNNSTUDENT NEWS. We are happy to have you watching.

最高法院就种族问题和大学招生的一项决定。今天的CNN学生新闻我们首先关注这一事件。感谢你一如既往的守候。

Back in 2006, 58 percent of voters in the state of Michigan decided that race shouldn't factor into college admissions. That public colleges can't give preferential treatment to people based on race, gender or where they are from.

早在2006年, 密歇根州58%的选民投票决定种族问题不应该列入大学招生的考虑范围内。公立大学不能基于种族、性别或国籍给予人们优惠待遇。

But last year, a lower court struck down the law saying it violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of equal protection.

但是去年,一家下级法院驳回该法律称其违反了美国宪法所承诺的同等保护权。

Well, this went to the Supreme Court, the final legal authority in the U.S. It ruled six to two that the lower court didn't have the right to overturn Michigan's law. So, it wasn't a decision directly about affirmative action, but about who has the power to resolve the controversy. Because of the ruling, Michigan's law against preferential treatment can't stay in place.

这要获得美国法律的最权威机构最高法院批准方能施行。而这一机构以6:2裁决下级法院没有推翻密歇根法律的权利。所以,这并不是对于平权法案的直接决定,而是谁有解决争议的能力。因为此次裁决,密歇根反对优惠待遇的法律已经站不住脚。

Yesterday, the high court also heard the case involving Aereo. It's a company that allows subscribers to watch and record TV channels without having to get cable, which is more expensive. Aereo has thousands of TV antennas. They captured the free over the air signals of TV stations, connect them to a DVR and then allows subscribers to watch them from a mobiledevice.

昨天最高法院也就涉及Aereo的案件举行了听证会。这家公司允许没有有线电视用户观看及录制的电视频道,而且这种方式价格相对低廉。Aereo有成千上万的电视天线。他们获得免费的电视台信号,将它们连接到DVR上,然后允许用户从移动设备上观看。

Now, it's time for the nine justices of the Supreme Court to rule on whether Aereo is legal or not.

现在轮到最高法院的9位大法官裁决Aereo是否合法。

On Tuesday, the justices heard oral arguments in this case, which has been bubbling up for two years. Ever since Aereo came on to the market in New York City offering customers a new way to watch over the airwaves television stations via the Internet. Aereo charges $8 a month, and it disrupts the existing ecosystem for television in the United States. Because stations, local stations in New York City have gotten used to receiving retransmission fees from cable and satellite companies that want to rebroadcast their content.

周二法官们听取了已经沸沸扬扬闹腾2年这一事件的口头辩论。自那时起Aereo在纽约市场上为客户提供一种通过互联网观看电视广播电视台的全新方式。Aereo对此收取每月8美元费用,就是这样的行为被认为破坏了现有美国电视的生存方式。因为纽约当地电台,电视台已经习惯了从希望重播自家内容的有线电视和卫星电视公司收取转播费。

While Aereo works around that system, it has its own array of tiny antennas that allow customers to watch TV without having to pay for cable or satellite and thus, without having to pay for those retransmission fees. All of the broadcasters say, this is a blatant copyright violation. And here on Tuesday, we heard a vigorous debate about what Aereo really is. The broadcasters say it's a gimmick that should be essentially ruled to be illegal and made extinct. Aereo says it's - this is not about copyright at all. They say what they are doing is perfectly legal because of the way they've set up the array of antennas.

虽然Aereo的运作也需要该系统,但它自己的一系列小天线允许客户收看电视而无需支付有线或卫星电视转播费。所有的广播公司表示这是公然侵犯版权。而在这周二我们听到一场关于Aereo到底是什么的激烈辩论。广播公司表示这是一个噱头,应该基本上裁定为非法并且需要根除。然而Aereo表示这不是关于版权问题。他们自己的所作所为完全合法,因为他们已经设置了一系列的天线。

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