Court bars streaming of TV programming online

In a key victory for television broadcasters, a federal court has ordered a Seattle start-up called ivi Inc. to stop distributing broadcast signals over the Internet without their consent.

The U.S. District Court in New York issued a preliminary injunction against ivi on Tuesday barring the company from streaming copyright-protected broadcast programming online.

Ivi captures over-the-air broadcast signals from stations in Seattle, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and delivers them to subscribers who have downloaded its ivi TV player, which costs $4.99 a month.

The company is being sued for copyright infringement by the big broadcast networks, local stations in New York and Seattle, public broadcasters, several large movie studios and Major League Baseball.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/22/2674103/court-bars-streaming-of-tv-programming.html



That really sucks!

proper compensation to the copyright holder.
Moral, get permission first.

Ivi is capturing (free) over-the-air broadcasts, and re-selling them, I assume, at a profit.
It's pretty clear-cut copyright infringement, in my opinion.

People who do pay for cable/satellite television pay a monthly subscription fee as well, but those cable/satellite companies in turn pay licensing fees to the networks for the rights to distribute those broadcasts.

If it would have been for free, that would be a different story. Good ruling.

There are plenty of ways to get contant justifiably and often free online.

Bryant