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Locast Founder To Pay $32 Million To Settle Lawsuit By Big Four Broadcasters

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The founder of Locast, a non-profit determined by a federal judge to have improperly distributed broadcast TV network signals, has agreed to pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit.The settlement (read it here) is a straightforward capstone of the case.

In addition to the financial penalty, it enjoins defendant David Goodfriend from participating in any similar action that could be viewed as a copyright threat.ViacomCBS, Disney, NBCUniversal and Fox sued Locast in 2019.

The case had distinct echoes of the Aereo affair. Backed by Barry Diller, Aereo defended its digital alternative to pay-TV all the way to the Supreme Court before being torpedoed by an unfavorable ruling.Goodfriend, a veteran attorney, founded the non-profit parent of Locast in

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