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Again sticking with the rebroadcast presumption, its hard to make a case for monetary damages deriving from increasing the size of a broadcast audience, no matter its location.

Now if I'm in Chicago watching local Jacksonville TV, the Chicago broadcaster might suffer from a decreased audience and therefore, the mother network might be able to get less from their Chicago affiliate, but that would be offset by the increase in viewing for Jacksonville. So the network is cost neutral.

Also, if I am watching local Jacksonville programming while in Chicago, it would likely be based on a tie I have to Jacksonville (maybe I'm a business traveler), so I really would be the target audience for that broadcast.

Is it a copy-write infringement to read a book to a room full of kids? What if I do it over Skype?

Again, it seems that the issue would not be copy-write, but rather monetary damages, which would apply from collecting fees, selling additional advertising, or deleting existing advertising.

“Again sticking with the rebroadcast presumption, its hard to make a case for monetary damages deriving from increasing the size of a broadcast audience, no matter its location.”

The problem for the nets isn’t increasing the size of the broadcast audience — the problem is Aereo is charging that bigger audience for the signal. And the networks are barred by law from doing the same thing.

The premise is the American people own the broadcast airwaves. And you need a license from the People to broadcast over their bandwidth. Broadcasters get exclusive use of a place on the bandwidth — but they can never, ever, EVER charge the American people to access that signal. If they try to charge for it, the FCC will yank their license.

What the nets are sore about is that Aereo is making money doing what they’re not allowed to do: charge for “over the airwaves” broadcasting.

Their “damages” are not getting a cut of the money Aereo is making. Their logic: if we can’t charge for sending something out over the airwaves, then nobody can.

Again, it seems that the issue would not be copy-write, but rather monetary damages, which would apply from collecting fees, selling additional advertising, or deleting existing advertising.

There have been attempts by Big Media to prohibit leaping past commercials on DVR devices.

Hell, they helped "kill" the new "vcr". I had once upon a time a DVR device with a built in tv schedule (free over air from TV Guide) and a DVD-R recorder (with great editing capabilities).

Panasonic took them off the market (at least in the US) and offers NO repair support for them.

Now you can either get a DVR device or a DVD recorder, but not in the same box.

Hollywood HATED losing the Sony Betamax decision.