In a fairly straightforward decision, the Supreme Court ruled this week with a 6 to 3 vote, that Aereo does in fact breach TV broadcasters’ copyright, because regardless of the technology it uses to collect and re-distribute those TV channels, it is seen as a public performance. So just like a hotel or bar that puts TV on for the public, it has to pay a license. Whatever opportunities the precise judgment gives as get outs for Aereo, the idea of using the internet as a rather elongated antenna connection as a way of NOT paying a license, is now dead and buried and will not be revisited in the US. This is a strange case because outside the US…