That 6-3 ruling says that the TV-internet start-up Aereo does violate copyright laws by using these tiny antennas to allow subscribers to watch broadcast network television without having actually to pay any of those subscriber fees. The four major broadcast networks filed suit challenging this company, saying that they violated the copyright rules. Aereo says they did not because they simply were allowing people to watch content online and they were free of any sort of those network fees. This is a divided decision by the Supreme Court, authored by Justice Stephen Breyer — again, 6-3 — says that this internet start-up Aereo has violated copyright laws by allowing people to watch network television without having to hook up their television to any sort of network.

One thing that this case also does is that it says that this is not stomping this technology altogether. It actually goes out of its way, this opinion, to say that is is not a ruling on any future emerging technologies.