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forkslast Wednesday at 9:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of those things that's so cool it's hard to believe it's legal


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caseyylast Wednesday at 10:17 PM

There are many broadcasting laws worldwide, many quite archaic. Even Radio Garden got meaningfully restricted in the UK (only licensed national radio stations are allowed by a high court ruling). I worry for projects like TV Garden but they are undoubtedly very cool.

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lxgrlast Wednesday at 10:26 PM

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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