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Big Four Broadcasters Sue Streaming Video Provider Locast, Claim It's 'Aereo 2.0'

Big Four Broadcasters Sue Streaming Video Provider Locast, Claim It's 'Aereo 2.0'

5 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190731/09020242689/big-four-broadcasters-sue-streaming-video-provider-locast-claim-aereo-20.shtml

The nation's four biggest broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, Comcast NBCUniversal and Fox) have filed suit (pdf) against a streaming video nonprofit they say is "illegally using broadcaster content." New York based Locast offers viewers access to over the air broadcasts via the internet to roughly 13 cities (about 31% of the US market). Its website notes the operation is funded by donations and that access to this content (again, already accessible for free via an antenna) should be a consumer "right" given that US consumers technically own the airwaves these programs are broadcast over.

Not too surprisingly, the big four broadcast networks disagree, something we had expected:

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