Locast Chief David Goodfriend Says Big 4 Broadcasters “Waited Too Long” To Sue

David Goodfriend, founder of controversial not-for-profit outfit Locast, said the parent companies of ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox “waited too long” to sue him over the alleged theft of their signal

service sustained by donations , Locast views itself as a public service. Its stated goal is to make broadcast networks more accessible to viewers, consistent with the initial covenant of antennas pulling down signals out of the air.

Goodfriend said the company used a 1976 copyright law as a “recipe book. We followed that law so carefully and closely. So the question for any judge is, ‘Does the law mean what it says? Or does it mean something that none of us can figure out?'” Instead of innovating around cord-cutting, he argued, major broadcasters and their business partners are like “two old guys punching each other in the face in a rowboat that’s about to go over a waterfall.”

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