Thanks, that clarifies things. I have a hard time believing this does not fall under Rebroadcasting rules. This company aims to profit from streaming content that they have no rights to redistribute. Free OTA content is not public domain. The content is still owned by somebody. I think its a really cool service but I don't see a snowballs chance in hell that Aereo does not get nailed for this in court.

I assume the place shifting thing is a problem. The article mentions you rent antennas from Aero which to me would mean that you could get local area streams no matter where you live. I can already stream my own local area OTA with a Slingbox, not sure if that is also a problem for the Networks. But this seems to take it a bit far. I admit I read this quickly and may be missing something here.

I just run a cheap VPS and tunnel through SSH. its like $10 a month. You can get VPS in any country you need to originate from.

Anybody who gets this upset about a browser has got serious issues. Really man, breath.....

By fed server hugging the first thing I thought of was the fed having easy access to my servers. That would be a real concern for me if using an American cloud hosting provider, as I am not located in the US. Do these companies have any choice but to bend over to the government when they are told?

It will happen. Once all the old farts pack their rolodexes and retire. The new generation of management will change this. Telework is just too much to ask the average dinosaur to grasp.

And the best ones will rise to the top and win. What you describe is only a problem for early adopters that don't mind paying a premium to beta test crappy implementations. I will wait, let others feel the pain and spend their money. When/if I get in, I will be entering a mature market with less surprises. So go ahead, compete away. Bring on the uglies, so we can read the horrendous reviews and all laugh together in the forums as early adopters shout bloody murder about "this piece of crap they bought". Then we can enjoy watching those products die a horrible death and watching the good offerings evolve and improve before jumping on the bandwagon. I am looking forward to buying at the right time.

Now remember son... "“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.” - Homer J Simpson.

They get what they give. Case in point, I have Bell for Satellite TV service. On their website I can add channels and packages at will. But once it is added I can only remove channels by calling their 1-800 line and getting caught in phone menu hell. Once I finally talk to somebody, and I mean clear your calendar because this will take a while, I have to put up with the endless questions of why I am removing channels and would I be interested in this or that instead. To the point that you just get irritated and tell them to cancel the channels already. Is it a big deal on the grand scheme of things? Probably not but it is just part of their culture, they are a profit machine and somebody figured out early that the most profit can be generated by treating customers badly. So I am with OP. Screw Bell and anybody who smells like Bell.

Are you from Timmins?

Isn't the free market a bitch sometimes.

Great responses, thanks I will check Prey. Can anyone speak to the downsides of it? This writer brings up a few issues but it might be old news.

http://www.shrp.me/docs/dont_use_prey.php

Just looking for the flip side of using this if there are any.