Aereo's Kanojia Remains Confident Company Will Prevail in Supreme Court

Positions it as the underdog against big, bad broadcasters

In three weeks, Aereo, the upstart TV service will be fighting for its life before the Supreme Court. But Chet Kanojia, the Aereo’s CEO and founder, isn’t rattled at all.

“This is not for the faint of heart,” Kanojia said in a sit-down interview at the American Cable Association’s annual summit in Washington, D.C. “We started not just with a team of engineers, but also lawyers.”

Going on the attack against the broadcasters that have sued his company in multiple districts, Kanojia continued to insist that Aereo’s combination of personal antennas and cloud-based technology corrects an imbalance in the marketplace for consumers caught between satisfaction and price in the video market.

“People [broadcasters] say this is a copyright case.

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