Streaming service Locast suspended operations Thursday morning, after losing a key battle in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by television broadcasters. The company's move came just two days ...

Locast was ordered to shut down its online TV service forever in a permanent injunction issued yesterday by a federal judge. The order came two weeks after the judge gave major broadcast networks a ...

Local TV streaming service Locast has closed up shop, at least for the time being. It suspended operations following a ruling on Tuesday that it couldn't use its non-profit status as a legal shield.

Update, 9/2/2021: Locast said it is shutting down its TV service, at least for now, in response to its loss in court. "We are suspending operations, effective immediately," Locast said in a message on ...

ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC sued to shut down the service that streams broadcast channels for free. Locast calls it a sham and hauls YouTube into the fray. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...

The streamer alleges that ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are engaged in sham copyright litigation and are colluding to deny consumers over-the-air signals they once committed to make freely available. By Eriq ...

Football season is almost here (despite everything), which means it’s once again time to ponder the age-old cord-cutting question: How do you watch the games without spending big bucks on a bloated ...

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This big copyright case will come down to a federal court's view of Locast, a digital streaming app that's free … sorta. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large In biblical times, locusts were ...