Chaitanya (Chet ) Kanojia has put forward a disruptive technology which enables to pick up the broadcast signals off the air with an antenna of the size of a postage stamp. People can watch the TV programmes on lap top computers, smart phones and other portable devices. Most Americans access free-to-air TV through cable companies that pay heavy re-transmission fees to major US broadcasters. Chet’s company is called Aero. Its services costs $ 8 to $ 12 a month as it has not to pay the heavy retransmission fees to major US broadcasters. The broadcasters say their revenue loss is so vital that they will have to remove their signals from the airways if Aero is allowed to continue like this. It is also infringement of copyright. It may give a death blow to  the broadcasting  as we know it. Aero contends that it allows subscribers to do what they have been able to do since they used the rabbit-ear antenna and watch free broadcast if it caught signals over the  public airways. Aero only provides the equipment. The case is in the US supreme court and the judgment will have a bearing on cloud computing services such as Google and Apple.

The US supreme court ruled on Wednesday, June, 25, 2014 that Aero violates the copyright laws by capturing signals mid-air with its thumb-sized antennas and delivering them to the subscribers for a fee. It is a 6—3 decision and is a massive relief to the established broadcasters. Aero argued that it is cost-effective at $ 8 as compared to $80 plus people pay for cable services. The service is the same but the technological manner Aero provides the service is different.