Broadcasters are trying, once and for all, to make sure Aereo doesn’t get renewed for a second season.
Aereo, which is headquartered in New York and has its largest office in Boston, had previously offered its TV streaming service in Greater Boston and 10 other US markets.
In the wake of Aereo’s recent Supreme Court defeat, Brian Fung reports for the Washington Post that the startup is seeking to stay alive by using a backup legal argument. However, Fung writes that the broadcasters “are determined to shut that effort down before it even gets started.” From the report:
Court documents filed Friday had TV programmers’ lawyers arguing that Judge Alison Nathan should forget about giving Aereo another chance and simply lay down an injunction against the company that would ban it from operating. … Broadcasters are trying to go for the kill, calling for a nationwide ban on Aereo. They’re also demanding that any injunction address not just Aereo’s retransmission of content in near real-time, but also even content that’s played back online hours or days after the original broadcast.
Read the full story at the Washington Post, and check out the past coverage of Aereo on BetaBoston and the Boston Globe.
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