Local TV streaming service Locast has closed up shop, at least for the time being. It suspended operations following a ruling on Tuesday that it couldn’t use its non-profit status as a legal shield.
Locast, a streaming service whose delivery of broadcast network signals was ruled to be illegal by a federal court this week, has suspended its operations. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox banded together in ...
“The federal court’s ruling is a victory for copyright law, vindicating our claim that Locast is illegally infringing copyrights in broadcast television content in violation of federal law,” Gerson ...
The four major broadcast networks have sued over-the-top service Locast, which streams over-the-air signals for free. “Defendants stream plaintiffs’ programming over the internet twenty-four hours a ...
The founder of Locast, a non-profit determined by a federal judge to have improperly distributed broadcast TV network signals, has agreed to pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit. The settlement (read ...
Locast, a nonprofit digital TV translator service that targeted cord-cutting television viewers in Milwaukee and across the country, said Thursday it was shutting down after a federal court ruled that ...
DETROIT, Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, the nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service, is now delivering more than 65 local TV channels via the internet – for free – to those living ...
Local TV streaming service Locast has closed up shop, at least for the time being. It suspended operations following a ruling on Tuesday that it couldn't use its non-profit status as a legal shield.
Because networks are regulated by the government, under the covenant that they reach viewers at no charge over the air, Locast’s slogan was that it was helping viewers “free their TV.” Networks, not ...
Locast has announced that it is suspending its TV streaming service starting today, following a court ruling earlier this week in a lawsuit from ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, which jointly sued the ...
Nonprofit local TV streaming service Locast has suspended its operations “effective immediately” following a court ruling. A US District court ruled earlier this week that the nonprofit violated the ...