I&#x27;m not talking about the law so much as the moralizing. Aereo was a middle-man. The <i>only</i> reason anyone ever paid them money was to get access to content that Aereo didn&#x27;t create or even pay for. When that content became unavailable, Aereo collapsed because the <i>entire value of their service</i> was derived from other peoples&#x27; content.<p>Whether or not their &quot;subscription DVR service&quot; fit within the legal loophole they were trying to take advantage of doesn&#x27;t change the fact that it&#x27;s pretty rich to build a service like that and then go around saying that the people whose content you&#x27;re distributing -- the people who create the content that is the sole basis for the existence of your business -- are &quot;fat cats&quot; with &quot;unfairly advantaged business positions.&quot;