Quoted: Aereo pleads for its life

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., shows a tablet displaying his company's technology, in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereoâ s case, the judge accepted the companyâ s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) — In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, Inc., shows a tablet displaying his company’s technology, in New York. Aereo is one of several startups created to deliver traditional media over the Internet without licensing agreements. Past efforts have typically been rejected by courts as copyright violations. In Aereoâ s case, the judge accepted the companyâ s legal reasoning, but with reluctance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

PUBLISHED: August 1, 2014 at 3:47 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 6:56 a.m.

The company is figuratively bleeding to death.

— Aereo, in a filing beseeching the federal court in Manhattan to let the company operate as a cable-TV service. If it s not allowed to do so — and in light of a June Supreme Court decision that found it in violation of copyright laws — Aereo says it will likely not survive. Aereo, which used digital antennas to stream local broadcast-TV signals to its customers without paying TV networks, stopped operating after the Supreme Court ruling. Now it s not bringing in any money, which obviously is a problem.

Photo: Chet Kanojia, founder and CEO of Aereo, shows a tablet displaying his company s technology in New York in 2012. (Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press)