As it prepares to head to the Supreme Court next week over streaming television technology, Aereo has launched a website where customers can rally behind it and see exactly what it’s doing with legal matters.
The website, called ProtectMyAntenna.org, is an education-based site where subscribers and consumers alike can get information about the company’s legal defense, as well as access all of its legal briefs.
The company has also been busy off-line as well, with its financial backer, Barry Diller, writing a Wall Street Journal piece that blasts his former broadcast teammates and the founder and CEO, Chet Kanojia, speaking with Yahoo’s Katie Couric and showing a rooftop antenna farm to TechCrunch.
“What is at stake in this case is much bigger than Aereo,” said Kanojia in an email to both subscribers and consumers. “We believe that consumers are entitled to use a modern, cloud-based version of an antenna and DVR and that consumers should not be constrained to 1950s-era technology to watch free-to-air broadcast television.”
Should the company lose in the Supreme Court, Kanojia believes it could “impair cloud innovation.”
Source: Adweek
