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Secondly what happened during the argument is aereo's lawyer, david frederick, said the internet community was in his term freeblgd out by this case because of the potential effect on the cloud, about being able to store things on the cloud. what the lawyers for the broadcaster said is, yeah, but most things that people stick in the cloud, they've already paid the copyright fee on, they've created it themselves or downloaded it from someplace else like itunes, they paid the copy write fee. so the court was trying to say, all we're saying is when you try to do something like aereo, almost exact...

And aereo said therefore it was not violating a provision of federal law that required people to pay copyright fees for public performances. what aero said is there's no public performance. this is just a one-to-one thing. the supreme court today said it is a public performance. aereo is making broadcast signals available to others without paying the copyright fee. tv programs, they said, are protected by copyright law. and it's probably fatal to aereo's business model. aereo could charge that copyright fee and stay in business, but the founders suggested they probably wouldn't do that. they w...

Copyright fee. but aereo didn't seem to have much best is in that. it's no secret the backers of aereo really had their ultimate sights on how cable tv programs were sold, and they hoped this case would bust that wide open. it appears that's not going to be the case. >> pete, we've got a few more big additiodecisions we're expe over the next few days. perhaps the biggest among them is regarding hobby lobby and whether they can be mandated by the federal government to provide birth control coverage for their employees. against what they say is their religious beliefs. if you would, refresh for ...

Love having you on the program. break down the aereo decision. aereo claimed it wasn't vif lating federal copy right laws. on what basis did the justices rule against them? >> they said aereo is wrong about that. there's a federal law that says if you retransmit somebody else's public performance, you can't do that without paying a copyright fee. first the supreme court said a television program is a public event. it is a public -- it is covered -- a public performance and is covered by the copyright law. what aereo said is all they were doing is what you can do at home, you put your own anten...

Allowed people in certain cities that had the service to pay a fee and be able to watch broadcast tv signals on a mobile device, iphone, ipad, smart phone. you did that by aereo, when you logged in, assigning an individual tiny antenna to you and video recorder to you. aereo said that worked just like you do at home, it was just being done remotely. the supreme court didn't buy that today. they said aereo is violating the copyright laws. when the tv station broadcasts a signal, that's a public lick performance and no one else can transmit it without paying aa fee. aereo designed its whole syst...