A cadre of prominent broadcasters—including ABC and CBS—petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to shut down Aereo, a television streaming service, alleging that Aereo infringes their copyrights and puts their businesses at risk, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The petition alleges that Aereo, which charges a fee to stream local TV stations' programming over the Internet, violates broadcasters' copyrights, the WSJ report said. The stations' broadcasts include network programming. The petitioning broadcasters include the owners of the ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox networks. They are appealing a ruling by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals that shot down their request for an injunction against Aereo, the WSJ said.
The previous ruling said Aereo's streaming TV service did not infringe the copyrights of over-the-air TV stations.
The circuit court's decision "is already transforming the industry and threatening the very fundamentals of broadcast television," the broadcasters wrote in their petition, the WSJ said.
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