Aereo got screwed by a bad SCOTUS decision that pretty much missed the point of their technology, what the service they provide is, and what people actually want. I’m not sure if they got the law right, but a number of people don’t think so.
What Aereo does next is the topic of much conversation. I think it is pretty simple: sell the antenna as a pro-sumer product. I want to buy an antenna, slip it into a 1U server, put that server in a co-location data center, and watch TV. If I ignore the cost of the server (which I already have) and count the antenna as a one time cost, I can do this for less than what TWC charges me in the NY metro area to get the broadcast stations that aren’t available at my house 60 miles from the Empire State Building antenna array because the switch to digital broadcast exposed the fact that there aren’t any television re-transmitters in Hudson Valley and therefore those NFL broadcast maps that tell me which games I’m not permitted to see on Sunday Ticket because they “compete” with the broadcast channel are lying.
I would do this because it is worth $100 a month to not have to deal with TWC just to watch the three or four NFL games a year I care about that are blacked out on Sunday Ticket because they are in the 1990’s analog TV local broadcast region.
So, Chet Kanojia, sell me a low-profile PCIe card for less than $200 that has four DTV antennas on it that will work with Linux and open-source your software stack so I can build my own remote antenna system that will stream broadcast TV over the Internet. Along the way I can rip out the “you aren’t in the broadcast region” location checks so I can watch from anywhere in the world, add in commercial stripping algorithms, integrate with other streaming services, and create distributed antennas so I can have one in New York and one in Seattle and just manage all the programming from a single console and get serious about subverting the cable company fuckery.
If you are serious about that too, just open source your hardware and drop your patent portfolio into a “free to use” bucket like Elon Musk did – it may be illegal for you to run a company that manages antennas and streams broadcast TV over the Internet, but giving technology to the people so they can consume broadcast TV on their terms isn’t (yet) illegal; I’ll take your schematics to Adafruit and have them kick out a small batch “prototype” run from their pick-and-place machine and be on my merry way.