Aereo 'temporarily' ends service after Supreme Court ruling

June 28, 2014

If you subscribe to Aereo, the service that lets you stream live TV for a small monthly fee, you may have noticed that your service ended abruptly this morning. In a letter posted to the company’s website Saturday morning, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia announced that the company has “decided to pause [its] operations temporarily” and would discontinue service at 11:30am Eastern Time. Current Aereo subscribers will receive a refund for their last paid month of their subscription, according to the company. “The spectrum that the broadcasters use to transmit over the air programming belongs to the American public,” the letter states. “And we believe you should have a right to access that live programming whether your antenna sits on the roof of your home, on top of your television or in the cloud.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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