Quote Originally Posted by Smokey View Post
So does that mean anybody with an antenna on their roof is a thief. What a ridiculous argument. Network are just afraid of somebody budding in their monopoly business.
Smoke, I ought to slap you on the back of the head. Programming for Broadcast is licensed for broadcast, and advertisers pay to keep it free. These guys are reselling the broadcast feed without paying retransmission fees like cable and the telecoms do.

Content is licensed by the studios that create them as use specific. If you are a second party rebroadcaster you must get a broadcasting license for all of the content you receive.

Fox is not the only network talking of going cable if the networks lose this in court. We got a note from Disney saying that they will take ABC to cable as well if they lose this fight. In the end this will be a huge blow for free over the air television, and Aereo will end up with nothing to broadcast.