Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack. So did cable television wh

Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack. So did cable television which, in the early days, was notorious for not paying for broadcast network programming they could get over the air. That was solved by introducing a compulsory licensing scheme: any cable company could retransmit an over-the-air broadcast network, so long as they paid up. Which also solved a massive logistical headache of each cable provider potentially having to negotiate a license with the parent network (for its programming) and each affiliate (for the local programming such as news or local sports), by creating a consolidated administered fund to collect and distribute the payments. All Aereo really needs is enough money to buy itself a few members of Congress and get a similar scheme set up. That is the real, literal legal "hack".