I crave silence
Dan Gillmor notes a web site (which he found through a page set up by Ben Edelman) that retransmits terrestrial television signals over the net, and asks if it’s legal. This story sounds very familiar; there was a Canadian company called I Crave TV a couple of years ago that tried the same thing but was shut down by a judge in Pittsburgh (where the company was originally founded before moving to Canada to try to take advantage of a more forgiving legal atmosphere). This article from Wired News in March points out that this new company is not officially related to the old one, even though it’s using more-or-less the same name. So I guess the short answer, Dan, is that no, it’s not legal. At least not in Pittsburgh.
Posted at 12:12 PM