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The government is siding with broadcasters in their legal fight with Aereo. In an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court, the U.S. copyright office and the Department of Justice told the court Aereo has infringed on broadcast copyright and urged the court to reverse the second circuit's decision that refused to stop the service.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in ABC v. Aereo on April 22.
Aereo has argued that it is not engaged in broadcasting a "public performance" of broadcast signals, but that it is merely renting its subscribers the use of a tiny antenna to pull down the signal that is streamed over the Internet.
But the Solicitor General, who represents the U.S.
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