Supreme Court rules against Aereo

In a big blow to cord-cutters, the Supreme Court ruled against Aereo, essentially dealing the small startup a death blow.  If you’re not familiar with Aereo, they had equipment installed in major cities with one antenna per subscriber.  Each subscriber could tune their antenna to record any over the air TV signals, and then stream that data to their computers or mobile devices over the internet.  Aereo’s position was that the one-antenna-per-subscriber made them different than a traditional cable company, but the Court ruled otherwise in a 6-3 decision.  Bummer.

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