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Deal Reached in iCraveTV Case

Posted by emmett on from the finally dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "According to the Associated Press and Altavista News, iCraveTV agreed yesterday not to rebroadcast American TV programming. See the full story here. Of particular interest is that 'The plaintiffs -- including Disney, MGM, Paramount and ABC, CBS and Fox -- accused iCraveTV of copyright infringement, trademark infringement and unfair competition.'"

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  1. Why they stopped by dattaway · · Score: 5

    This explains everything:

    "Craig said the company was settling because it could not afford to continue fighting the suit."

    The industry promptly postures:

    "Today's settlement signals that the rights of copyright holders and creators cannot be ignored.''

    What this tells me is who ever has the biggest bat wins. Not who's right or wrong, but who can pound the other into submission.

    1. Re:Why they stopped by MindStalker · · Score: 5

      See, once again, you missed the point. Its Canada :)
      Canadian law (or atleast the providence that icrave is located in) states that anyone can rebroadcast broadcast TV signals. The problem comes in play where American law colides with their law.

  2. Re:The Real Deal by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 5

    > they didn't make it easy enough to remove their advertising banners.

    Does this mean NBC be suing SONY soon because it's not easy to remove that "SONY" logo on my TV and remote? The SONY logo isn't inside the TV frame, but then, neither were iCrave's banners...

    It's not like iCrave was removing any ads. Were advertisers complaining that too many people were seeing their ads?

    > they did not bother to understand every nuance of the law

    Actually, I think they understand Canadian law pretty clear. The only nuance they missed was how deep Corporate American pockets are. Does Canada's law that allows rebroadcast somehow limit adding additional material?

    --

    -- Don't Tase me, bro!

  3. Napster type idea for TV... by PeterMiller · · Score: 5

    Seems like this would be the best forum to ask the question. Is it technically possible to create a Napster like software, at least for people with TV inputs on thier PC's?

    The idea being that if you had a TV tuner on your PC, you would run the software to act as a server, for maybe 3-4 users. With a network of at least 2500 people running this software, you'd pretty much get wide coverage across the continent.

    Illegal, most likely, but is it possible?