[Blood of Tyrants]

If they are streaming the commercials too, what is the big deal?

[IYAS9YAS]

This is different from a portable T.V. how?

[CGASMIA68]

why would any one want to take ABC CBS NBC with them anywhere?

[W.]

I saw Aereo earlier, not a lot on it. Peek here, beats nothin' and it works pretty good. Kids like cartoons/Anime? You want 'em, they got 'em, no commercials! Yer welcome!

[SamAdams76]

It's a nice service and the Aereo start-up is backed up by some high-powered investors who are pretty confident they will prevail in the court of law. This is what cable companies fear most because access to local stations is the main reason more people aren't cutting the cord entirely.

I look at it like this. In the pre-cable days (for me, prior to 1988), I spent years fussing with my TV antennas trying to get a decent signal. And I didn't live in the boondocks either. You could see the skyline of Boston from my attic window yet I had to constantly get up and adjust the rabbit ears (for UHF) and the rooftop antenna (for the main channels). It was maddening. If you touched the antenna you would get a perfect signal but as soon as you moved away, the picture would start getting fuzzy again. Rubber bands and string had to get involved to hold the antenna in the "perfect" spot and even then, it would only last a little while.

So for all those years of aggravation, I am grateful to have access to a clean signal at a reasonable price.

[richmwill]

No different than using an aerial or digital tv antenna. Aereo seems to be doing nothing wrong in my view.

[Dacula]

I use Aereo at my house. We have had it for over a year and love it.

My sons want me to get Comcast or Verizon so that they can play their video games, but I will not feed that beast.

[Homer1]

Don’t know how the case will go, but ethically, they are in the wrong IMHO.

[discostu]

Realizing somebody is making money on your product without giving you a cut and wanting to fix it isn’t fear, it’s good business.

[Yo-Yo]

The company assigns each subscriber an antenna that can access programming broadcast for free over the air.

This is at best a very long stretch of the truth, and at worst an outright lie.

What Chet Kanojia has developed is an antenna array. To prove that he really does not assign a single dime-sized antenna to each and every subscriber, simply ask him to turn off all but one antenna and see how his reception is. He won't because the entire system fails if all or most of the antennas are working in unison as an antenna array.

So for legal purposes, he is a community antenna TV distribution service, and the copyright laws have been clear on what permissions they must first obtain for at least 40 years.

[DrewsMum]

okay, have to say it. The picture of the guy holding the antenna look so evil and sinister.