is there any reason you did it other than not to violate the copyright laws he asked a ruling on the case is expected as early as june but both sides have lined up solid arguments before both the court and the public warning of profound consequences if the other side won the broadcast monopolies which have enjoyed a stranglehold on the transmission business even with the advent of the internet and said aereo should pay a transmission fee like everyone else if its lifts signals have warned that they will have to take themselves off the air and convert to cableonly channels if aereos runaway technology is allowed to mooch its signals kanojia is fighting back with the argument that big broadcast is simply milking the small consumer what is at stake in this case is much bigger than aereo we believe that consumers are entitled to use a modern cloudbased version of an antenna and dvr and that consumers should not be constrained to 1950s era technology to watch freetoair broadcast television he said in an email massage just before the hearing began the broadcasters positions in this case if sustained would impair cloud innovation and threaten the myriad benefits to individuals companies and the economy at large of the advances in cloud computing and cloud storage the story goes that two years ago when kanojia first started his company he visited the offices of the four big broadcast television networks to tell them about his plan to upend their business and strike a deal their response well see you in court but the lower courts backed aereo and the 43year old indian disrupter seemed ready to topple a legacy business which he sees as predatory and having feasted on the system since the 1970s before big broadcast brought the case to washington none of this was remotely on the cards for the bhopal native who lived through the union carbide disaster in 1984 he was lucky to live upwind he said in one interview before getting an engineering degree from the national institute of technology and coming to the us where he graduated from northeastern university with a degree in mechanical engineering not exactly the iitstanford pedigree that is the hallmark of many indian successes in the us but academic lineage hardly seems to matter to a man who holds more than 14 patents in fields ranging from robotics to data whose very first company navic networks an industry leader in advanced television advertising was acquired by microsoft in 2008 for a reported 250 million all that pales before the epic nature of the ongoing supreme court battle a faceoff that will have such profound consequences on the broadcast industry in the us that organizations from the consumer electronics association to the national football league have filed amicus briefs we remain steadfast in our conviction that aereos cloudbased antenna and dvr technology falls squarely within the law we have every hope and confidence that