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"They cringe at the thought of paying $130 a month for cable so Boorstin won’t miss Nationals baseball games. [...] With Aereo, baseball streaming site MLB.com, and maybe another app, they would gladly use the Internet for all their video news and entertainment."

Nope, if the Nationals aren't over the air in DC (likely not most of the time), and you live in DC, it will be blacked out. Aereo does not affect this in any way.

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Of course it does. Someone can subscribe to an antenna in a different market than DC, specifically to get a nationally televised game that is NOT blacked out in the local market. This is would be my biggest draw to Aereo.

Your credit card billing address has to match your service area.

Get a prepaid credit card and claim any address you want.

And they could get a remote VPN/tunnel today. Workarounds exist with and without Aereo yet the article makes it seem like this case significantly affects regular cable sports watchers which is not the case.

And commit 30-40 CFAA and wire fraud felonies according to an overzealous DA in the process.

//just to show how absurd the situation with computer crime right now is.

Cable doesn't get blacked out?

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