http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/25/medi...html?hpt=hp_t2
Ever since Aereo was introduced in early 2012, its biggest financial backer, Barry Diller, has said that there is "no plan B" if the courts concluded that it was operating illegally.
He did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CNN, but he told CNBC that he thought the ruling was a "big loss for consumers who seek alternatives to the cable bundle. "We did try, but now it's over," he told CNBC.While I haven't seen the briefs, it appears 3 of the conservative judges offered a dissent.Fueling the feeling that Aereo was David battling Goliath, the Justice Department and the United States Copyright Office took a public position against Aereo and called it "clearly infringing."
"What Aereo is doing is really the functional equivalent of what Congress in the 1976 [Copyright] Act wanted to define as a public performance," Malcolm Stewart, a deputy solicitor general at the Department of Justice, told the Supreme Court justices during oral arguments in April.
Aereo and its supporters strongly disagreed -- they said the service was expressly created to abide by the law.
"Aereo is, essentially, simply an antenna device that replaces technologically what you used to have to do — to go up to your rooftop and erect an antenna," Diller said.