It’s a tiny loophole...
Who’s making appointments to watch local broadcasters anymore?
As Bert loves to point out, it’s much easier to just stream the few broadcast
shows you may want to watch on demand...
Regards
Craig
On Jan 29, 2019, at 11:12 PM, Manfredi (US), Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Monty Solomon posted:
Watching TV is free and easy with under-the-radar Locast
Locast, available in seven major U.S. cities, beams popular
networks to phones, TVs and computers for free
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/watching-tv-is-free-and-easy-with-under-the-radar-locast/2019/01/28/84e24986-2315-11e9-b5b4-1d18dfb7b084_story.html
In spite of the protestations and reasons given by broadcasters for opposing
Aereo ("no license to stream"), four+ years ago, my thinking was that Aereo's
only true sin was to charge a monthly fee. And not give the broadcasters
their pound of flesh. Because in every other respect, Aereo was a help to
broadcasters, broadening their audience, adding eyeballs to their
commercials, as one would expect from an apartment complex central antenna
system. And more so, since Aereo would also support mobile service. What's to
complain about? The monthly fee, that's all.
This quote seems to confirm what I had guessed:
"Locast has been around for about a year already and may have found a
legitimate loophole because it's a nonprofit, as federal law says nonprofits
can retransmit broadcasters' signals without violating their rights."
Whether federal law says this or not, the lack of monthly fee takes away the
controversy. Although, like the author, that by-appointment service would no
longer cut it for me either. Besides, my "antenna farm" in the fireplace
works pretty darned well too.
Bert
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