WASHINGTON (AP) — In a key victory for television broadcasters, a federal court has ordered a Seattle start-up called ivi Inc. to stop distributing broadcast signals over the Internet without their consent.
The U.S. District Court in New York issued a preliminary injunction against ivi on Tuesday. It bars the company from streaming copyrighted broadcast programming online.
Ivi captures over-the-air broadcast signals from stations in Seattle, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and delivers them to subscribers who have downloaded its ivi TV player, which costs $4.99 a month.
The company is being sued for copyright infringement by the big broadcast networks, local stations in New York and Seattle, public broadcasters, several large movie studios and Major League Baseball.
Ivi had no immediate comment.
