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This week, the Supreme Court began hearings to determine if Aereo’s broadcast-TV-time-shifting model is legal. Aereo is an antenna middle man for consumers, who can rent an unobstructed TV antenna that beams the content back to any of their devices as live-streamed TV, or saves it for watching later. It's both a guaranteed good signal and your own personal TiVo, but just for broadcast TV--which is free for anyone with an antenna to watch. If the court allows Aereo to proceed, many predict the floodgates will open, and broadcast TV will find its way onto the Internet in more venues. If Aereo loses, it might threaten the company and other cloud computing companies. During arguments on Tuesday, the justices were concerned about how a ruling might affect cloud computing companies, though Forbes’ JJ Colao said the two sides were evenly matched. The court will make a final ruling in June. On this week's show we're joined by special guests FilmOn CEO Alki David who has filed briefs in favor of Aereo, Dan Rayburn from StreamingMedia.com, and Ben Collins who has covered this story for Esquire. We’ll also be joined by regulars Andrew Lih from American University and host Mark Glaser from PBS MediaShift.