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"  Photo: NBCUniversal On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could stop TV live-streaming start-up, Aereo, from doing business. It makes me somewhat nervous even though I don&amp;#039;t use Aereo, because the verdict this April could very well affect everyone who watches TV. No matter how they watch it. Here&amp;#039;s the deal: For $8 a month, Aereo lets people both live-stream and record broadcast television over the Internet. The two-year-old company is already operating in 10 different markets, and it just raised $34 million to expand to 17 more cities. Like Netflix, the service makes cord-cutting\u2014or cancelling your cable subscription to find other ways to watch TV\u2014all the more attractive, so naturally networks like ABC, Fox, NBCUniversal and CBS aren&amp;#039;t so into it. Related: Six British Shows to Binge on This Weekend Those four networks are one on side of the Supreme Court case, with Aereo on the other. The part of Aereo&amp;#039;s MO that they&amp;#039;re challenging is a little nitty-gritty technical (for a full explanation, see here), but most experts say they could see the Court ruling either way on the legality of it. And that matters, because it could have consequences for all TV watchers, especially in the short term.  On one hand, the networks are saying that an Aereo victory means they might not have the money to air things like the Super Bowl and the Oscars, and the NFL and MLB might pull their sports games from their networks. Or they might just have to become paid subscription channels, like HBO. On the other hand, Aereo warns that a network victory means &amp;quot;chilling&amp;quot; consequences for all services that use similar methods, making cord-cutting a whole lot harder. Both sides are angry, which reminds me all too well of last year&amp;#039;s vicious CBS/TimeWarner feud that stomped on my NCIS-watching game for a month. The loser of this case is going to want to raise a little hell over it, meaning TV-watching this spring might not be the same as it usually is. (At least both award show season and the Super Bowl will be long over by then? Well, at least for this year...) Related: Getting Personal with ELLE&amp;#039;s Women in TV "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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