Aereo Wants You to Protect Your Wait, What, Again?


Right now Aereo is doing exactly what you’d expect it to be doing — only a little late.

With arguments on American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo beginning next Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court, the embattled New York tech startup has just now taken its case to the people with ProtectMyAntenna.org. Of course, because so few people actually use antennas anymore — last summer the Consumer Electronics Association released a study saying that just 7% of U.S. household rely solely on antennas for TV reception — Aereo is using its consumer-facing advocacy site to, once again, explain what it does:

“Aereo’s technology provides a consumer the ability to use a remotely located individual antenna to access free-to-air broadcasts, make a personal copy of a program on a remote DVR and play back that copy only to him or herself. Using the cloud, Aereo was able to develop a smarter, more sophisticated antenna, purpose-built for the 21st century consumer.”

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