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772 points vkdelta | 2 comments | 30 Mar 25 14:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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forks ◴[02 Apr 25 21:52 UTC] No.43562093[source]▶
One of those things that's so cool it's hard to believe it's legal
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lxgr ◴[02 Apr 25 22:26 UTC] No.43562445[source]▶
Why not? Public broadcast TV stations want to be viewed, just like web radio streams!

That said, the first one I tried (a German public broadcaster) was showing a static image of “this programme is currently unavailable for legal reasons”. (I believe they do IP-based geofencing for legal/broadcasting rights reasons.)

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1. gosub100 ◴[02 Apr 25 23:40 UTC] No.43563096[source]▶
There was a high profile court case in about 2018 where a start-up was trying to sell rebroadcasted public TV and it was ruled illegal and held up on appeal. They even tried "renting" miniature TV antennae to users with the legal theory that they never made a "copy". Sad to see it was shot down.
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2. lxgr ◴[02 Apr 25 23:44 UTC] No.43563132[source]▶
This is very different though: The streams are provided by the broadcasters themselves, not by somebody that receives their signal and then rebroadcasts it.

If they didn't want their content watched abroad, they would add geoblocking or authentication. Some of the ones listed on TFA actually do that for parts of their program.