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Aereo: Hey, we’re a cable company after all!

Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia discusses the company to a group of tech enthusiasts.

Less than a month after its Supreme Court loss, TV-over-the-Internet startup Aereo has filed a letter with a lower court, laying out its final legal strategy—one that it hopes can resurrect it from the grave.

It's going to act like a cable company.

If it walks like a duck...

Aereo customers rented up to two tiny, dime-sized antennas that are housed in facilities across the country. The antennas captured local, over-the-air broadcasts and funneled them to local customers in real time. The content was freed to stream to most any Internet-connected device. Another antenna synced with a DVR for later viewing for about $12 monthly. Broadcasters decried it as "technological gimmickry" to skirt copyright and other retransmission laws.

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