Elgato produces award-winning TV software together with a complete range of TV tuners and capture devices to watch, record, and edit TV and HDTV on Macs and PCs.
Based on that premise, the company built out data centers with small antennas that could captureTV signal off the air and redistribute them over the internet.
The 52-page decision by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan dashes the hopes of ABC, NBC and other broadcasters that they could quickly shut down Aereo, which uses tiny individual antennas to captureTV signals that it streams to each customer over the Internet.