[jneal]

To be fair, the cable company transmits 1 signal to everyone, with Aereo each person has their own attenna. It's not much different from a service like slingbox except that slingbox uses your actual home signal whereas w/ Aereo you are effectively renting an antenna.

[untog]

Right, but that's just technical semantics, really. Aereo installs an individual antenna for every person to skirt around existing rules. By any objective analysis it's a total waste of time and money.

[evan_]

> Aereo installs an individual antenna for every person to skirt around existing rules.

One person's "To skirt around" is another's "To comply with".

[mbreese]

But that was the only technical method that was available to comply with the law. The supreme court practically laid out that business model for them in a prior decision.

It's a total waste of time and money, but it's also legal.

[dublinben]

It's actually legal semantics, which are the only relevant semantics here. Aereo must jump through these ridiculous hoops for their service to remain within the letter of the law.