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ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC’s 2-Year Lawsuit Against Free Streaming Service to Intensify

In Biblical times, locusts were one of the plagues visited upon Egypt so the Pharaoh would free the Israelites. In today’s streaming era, it’s Locast being unleashed upon the television industry.

What’s Locast? It’s a digital app that streams over-the-air television stations. Meaning, if a cord-cutter wanted to watch last night’s Oscars on ABC and didn’t have an ol’ rabbit ears antenna handy, this individual could go to Locast.org and sign up to see the local affiliate retransmitted online. It’s free. Well, sorta. A wrinkle may soon play a major role in an important copyright case. Broadcasters are now preparing to ask a federal judge for a sweeping legal victory against Locast.

In July 2019, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC filed a lawsuit over Locast. Nodding to a big Supreme Court decision a few years earlier, the complaint stated, “Locast is simply Aereo 2.0, a business built on illegally using broadcaster content.”

Read the source article at Hollywood Reporter

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