It is quite funny. "Tired of paying for tv? Then use our completely free app. It runs on donations, so if you don't donate, we'll have to close down." So, if I just pay for satellite, cable, or streaming, I will pay more, but get more. Got it.
It would only be a matter of time before the station owners swarm on them like locus, demanding their cut for retransmission. In fact, by what it sounds like right now, the owners already get a cut, hence the need for donations.Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are both available on Locast now. That brings the current total to nine cities.
Locast can legally charge for their service, but they need to be able to prove they're only charging "the actual and reasonable costs of maintaining and operating the secondary transmission service."
17 U.S. Code § 111 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Secondary transmissions of broadcast programming by cable (Sub-section 5)
It would only be a matter of time before the station owners swarm on them like locus, demanding their cut for retransmission. In fact, by what it sounds like right now, the owners already get a cut, hence the need for donations.
Ya think! It’s kind of like PBS, they need donors to stay alive. They get some endowment from the feds but it takes much more than that to keep going. PBS is also non profit.
The good ole days when OTA was all there wasThese guys are 'Dead Men Walking' as soon as they get just a bit bigger. It'll be just the same as Aereo, regardless of the lie that they "aren't charging for service". Nope, just begging for money like Wikipedia does every other week.
That's what will be used against them in the coming lawsuit. The Robber Barons are NEVER going to give up their Retrans Fee's without a fight, because if they don't defend them, they'll lose them for sure to groups like this.
That's probably because there is nothing donated from it yet. St Louis is in the drop down list.No St Louis on the map.
Depends on the VPN...if your VPN can fool Netflix...it will work on locast....turn your VPN on...if you don't get an error message when you play a Netflix movie..you are good to goI’m confused by a combination of a few posts here. Are Smart DNS and location spoofing the same thing? And if they are different, would I need both of them plus a VPN for different locals?
You have to register or it times outIs this still working for anyone? I played with it for a few days back in February and it worked fine. Now I get an error every time I try it. I looked at their Facebook page and there are lots of complaints about the same issues with no reply from Locast.
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