The legal battles between internet television service Aereo and the broadcast networks whose signals it retransmits are actually helping the company grow, says Barry Diller. The media mogul, whose IAC is a prominent backer of Aereo, said he's "happy the broadcasters sued us in such a noisy way" at the D11 conference in Los Angeles today. Diller admitted that Aereo has "very few" customers at the moment, but the increased attention from the lawsuits has boosted subscriber numbers.
"I don't think closed systems are going to hold."
Diller also said that the plan is to grow Aereo beyond broadcast television into original content, as Netflix and Amazon have done. "I'm hopeful that if Aereo works, if we reach 15 to 20 million homes with a...
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