The online television company Aereo Inc. on May 6 filed a declaratory judgment suit against CBS Broadcasting Inc. and about two dozen CBS affiliates, asking a judge to rule that Aereo’s service doesn’t infringe the defendants’ copyrights. The complaint, filed in U.S. district court in Manhattan, comes less than a week after CBS president Leslie Moonves vowed to keep suing Aereo everywhere it plans to expand. The company says it will launch its network TV streaming and recording service in Boston next week, followed by 21 additional cities beyond its current market in New York.
The start-up, with heavy backing from media mogul Barry Diller, lets subscribers watch local television programs live on their computers or mobile devices or record them for later. Rather than stream the networks’ content directly from a central Aereo antenna, the company packed a warehouse in Brooklyn with thousands of tiny antennas that it assigns to individual customers. The company does not pay retransmission fees for the programming.
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