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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.