I've seen sites that stream cable, satellite, and broadcast stations on the internet, such as tvthug.com, tvunetworks.com, and joost, but are these perfectly legal, and can the cable/satellite networks like the Fox News Channel, CNN, or ESPN, for example, stop these sites from broadcasting on the internet?
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Yes. The networks can file a lawsuit to stop their signals from being carried. If these online services are carrying the signals from the networks without permission, that is theft of service. These people can go to jail or pay hefty fines for doing this.
These services appear to be doing what the original Napster and other file sharing services did for music.
These services appear to be doing what the original Napster and other file sharing services did for music.
Actually, from the look of it, there appears to be many different things going on.
The first site appears to be taking a feed found elsewhere and tacking on a opening clip to advertise themselves with some of the "network OTA broadcasters" like CBS 2 Chicago is really resolving to the actual feed from CBS 2 when they do news and then cuts off when they aren't, the difference, is that you are using the interface they provide instead of the direct link. Not all of them are like that, there is obviously some retransmissions going on with other things like cable networks and such require add-ons from P2P streaming sites, which are basically at home illegally streaming local tv to the net (alot of this can be seen if you look up Peer to Peer streaming video links)
They seems to be not much more than a collection of links to the streams, I used to have time to look up links to radio stations and tv station streams (both legit and not-so-legit) but not currently. It is almost like when you look up streaming radio links on radio-locator or other such list site,they just have the idea that they can collect more ad revenue by tossing the streams into thier own interface and whatnot.
I'd check the TVU thing out, but I'm not about to install it on my machine, there's a bunch of those platform based applications that connect to a list-serv site and make the whole thing look user-friendly, but in truth, there's alot of dead links out there, and many "wild-feed" type links that, like the above CBS 2 example, only stream the local news and are unavailable most of the day.
The first site appears to be taking a feed found elsewhere and tacking on a opening clip to advertise themselves with some of the "network OTA broadcasters" like CBS 2 Chicago is really resolving to the actual feed from CBS 2 when they do news and then cuts off when they aren't, the difference, is that you are using the interface they provide instead of the direct link. Not all of them are like that, there is obviously some retransmissions going on with other things like cable networks and such require add-ons from P2P streaming sites, which are basically at home illegally streaming local tv to the net (alot of this can be seen if you look up Peer to Peer streaming video links)
They seems to be not much more than a collection of links to the streams, I used to have time to look up links to radio stations and tv station streams (both legit and not-so-legit) but not currently. It is almost like when you look up streaming radio links on radio-locator or other such list site,they just have the idea that they can collect more ad revenue by tossing the streams into thier own interface and whatnot.
I'd check the TVU thing out, but I'm not about to install it on my machine, there's a bunch of those platform based applications that connect to a list-serv site and make the whole thing look user-friendly, but in truth, there's alot of dead links out there, and many "wild-feed" type links that, like the above CBS 2 example, only stream the local news and are unavailable most of the day.
I read an article about this and an NBC executive said that it wasn't so much the shows it's the place. He said if they put an NBC show on YouTube, people watch it fine, but if it were only available on the NBC website (there it would be free too) people would get used to seeing NBC website, perhaps go to watch other NBC shows, which they wouldn't do on YouTube, and most importantly we can sell the website to online advertisers.
And I suspect the last is the real reason, they want people to look at ad surrounding their video streams.
And I suspect the last is the real reason, they want people to look at ad surrounding their video streams.
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