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I wasn't an Aereo customer, but were they streaming in standard video streaming formats? If so, would it be viable for them to really lease the antennas to peop

I wasn't an Aereo customer, but were they streaming in standard video streaming formats? If so, would it be viable for them to really lease the antennas to people and stream the non-decoded HDTV signal? It would require some sort of software defined radio decoding on the client side and would certainly reduce the features they could offer easily, but by doing that they basically become a simple signal repeater service - a commercial "range extender."

kevingadd 12y ago
That kind of nitpicky detail won't matter to the entertainment lobbies that effectively own a huge chunk of our government. Aereo was already built on a bunch of clever, detail-focused legal loopholes and caveats that should have protected them, but the case got reversed at the supreme court after they won.