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• Judge halts over-the-air TV streaming by Locast

  Posted on September 13, 2021 at 02:45 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  ISSUE 18.35 • 2021-09-13

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  A nonprofit organization that uses the Internet to stream live, over-the-air television signals to digital devices has suspended its service throughout the United States after a federal district-court judge ruled that the offering didn’t fully comply with an exception Congress wrote into the US Copyright Act.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.35.0 (2021-09-13).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.35.F (2021-09-13).

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• Entertainment in the media-streaming era

  Posted on May 27, 2019 at 04:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  By Susan Bradley

  Thinking about “cutting the cord”? While temporarily displaced from home, I learned that dropping cable and relying on the Internet isn’t easy.

  Watching your favorite shows can mean coping with different platforms, sorting through confusing connectivity options, and working out the restrictions imposed by each streaming service.

  Read the full story in the May 27, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter (Issue 16.19.0)

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