Suppose you buy some commercial time on your local TV station, and you pay pretty good chunk of change, since you go after a certain demographic.. and all of your shops are in a 50-75 mile area.. plus, your commercials are all in prime time. Joe Six pack half way across the county hooked up to Aereo is not ripping you off as much as Aereo is they are stealing the program your sponsoring! Theft of Service.
how is this different then a vcr ?
A vcr shifts the viewing of your ad in time..this shifted the viewing of your ad in location....what would have more impact on your??.
Time shifting of viewing (vcr) vs location adding of viewing (this product)
I shift your local customer seeing you ad in time and they miss that time window to do business with you.. they can not call back in time and order...you lose a local sale.
I add a physical location seeing your ad outside of your market i did nothing to stop viewing in you intended place and time..I only added viewers..and the only impact to you is you might gain an extra customer calling on you from outside your market.
Now if I'm in Chicago watching local Jacksonville TV, the Chicago broadcaster might suffer from a decreased audience and therefore, the mother network might be able to get less from their Chicago affiliate, but that would be offset by the increase in viewing for Jacksonville. So the network is cost neutral.
Also, if I am watching local Jacksonville programming while in Chicago, it would likely be based on a tie I have to Jacksonville (maybe I'm a business traveler), so I really would be the target audience for that broadcast.
Is it a copy-write infringement to read a book to a room full of kids? What if I do it over Skype?
Again, it seems that the issue would not be copy-write, but rather monetary damages, which would apply from collecting fees, selling additional advertising, or deleting existing advertising.