Author: Chris Welch
Broadcast TV streaming app Locast had hoped that qualifying itself as a not-for-profit might be enough to avoid the wrath of the major networks and the same demise as Aereo.
It was wrong on the first part. We’ll have to see about the second.
Today, all four of the big broadcasters — ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — filed a lawsuit against Locast under the argument that the free service is violating copyright law by retransmitting their also-free over-the-air television signals to its customers. The Wall Street Journal first broke news of the complaint.
Locast doesn’t charge for streaming access, but it encourages users to make donations in order to keep the service running. “We really did our homework,” David Goodfriend, Locast’s founder, told T...
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Broadcast TV streaming app Locast had hoped that qualifying itself as a not-for-profit might be enough to avoid the wrath of the major networks and the same demise as Aereo.
It was wrong on the first part. We’ll have to see about the second.
Today, all four of the big broadcasters — ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — filed a lawsuit against Locast under the argument that the free service is violating copyright law by retransmitting their also-free over-the-air television signals to its customers. The Wall Street Journal first broke news of the complaint.
Locast doesn’t charge for streaming access, but it encourages users to make donations in order to keep the service running. “We really did our homework,” David Goodfriend, Locast’s founder, told T...
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