Maybe they should be in the hardware selling business instead. Redesign their system to have discrete units. Aereo users would then buy the boxes (similar to

Maybe they should be in the hardware selling business instead. Redesign their system to have discrete units. Aereo users would then buy the boxes (similar to that Hauppauge one linked elsewhere in this discussion) and pay a monthly service fee for power and bandwidth. If they are done with Aereo, they can have the box shipped to them for a small fee, or sell it back to Aereo. The user will have complete and direct control of the TV box. Then there should be no problem. Hardware costs will be higher though, and maybe the service ends up costing more overall. It would still be worth it for some people, like my friend who (while he likes sports in general) really just wants to see all of his favorite sports team's games from another city. I know of other people with similar use cases.