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the future of TV and the way we watch it could change depending on a case now being considered by the Supreme Court the major broadcasters including CBS NBC ABC and fox are suing the startup Aereo for copyright infringement CBS also owned cnet area which launched in 2012 streams and records over-the-air broadcast television for local subscribers it's thousands of arrays of individual antennas and one antenna is designated for each subscriber that antenna picks up the signal and then it's transcoded and recorded and stored in a cloud DVR and then streamed to your computer while the cost for an aerial monthly subscription starts at eight dollars the broadcaster's are fighting for billions of dollars that could be lost and retransmission fees for their content Mario's argument is that you know over-the-air television is free anyways anyone with an antenna can access it and we're just giving them that antenna for the broadcaster's say what you're doing is you're basically providing a service like a cable service or a satellite service that's retransmitting are copyrighted content without paying us for it if the court rules in Aereo's favor broadcasters could potentially move their most popular shows from free broadcast channels to cable ABC could move a b c programming off of ABC to another disney own network something on cable the Supreme Court's decision isn't expected for weeks in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News