How is that even enforced?
> The claimants say that a finding for the defendant will fatally undermine copyright. The defendant says that a finding for the claimants will break the internet.
As usual, this happened due to rather rabid approach to copyright by big American labels. They may be legally in the right, though their actions, as always, have meaningful negative externalities. How far they reach in this case is unclear, but TuneIn and Radio Garden both have blocked non-UK streams for UK listeners.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuneIn#Legal_issues
[1] https://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2019/11/did-uk-judge-ju...
And TuneIn and Radio Garden don't even host any streams, to my knowledge; they're mere directories!
Overall, the UK TuneIn service was valuable to the public. And it is an example of such value being destroyed by copyright laws. This is yet another topic that many people have said much on.
I agree about stream directory services in general, but I'm a bit on the fence about TuneIn in particular.
It started out very useful, especially as the de facto backbone for Google Home devices – I believe they back or at least used to back "Hey Google, play <station name>".
But lately they started playing "pre-roll ads", and I think lately even playing ads over the live content, and I'm not entirely sure if they even share the revenue of those, or of premium subscriptions that avoid ads, with the underlying radio stations.
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.)
They show the news at the top of every hour so we check in pretty regularly.
If they didn't want their content watched abroad, they would add geoblocking or authentication. Some of the ones listed on TFA actually do that for parts of their program.
Mostly targeted to elderly people, but funny to watch every once in a while. You can even go there in person for quite cheap
Then again, the "algorithm"(TM) is geared to showing you what captures your attention in order to keep you watching and get those ad impressions out of you, so the videos end up being very same.
Also it's curious, a few days after that hurrican/flooding in a few months ago, a lot of the videos being shown were about houses being swept away in water. A few days ago a lot of the videos were of water falling off infinity pools and that collapsing skyscraper in Thailand (RIP).
That's actually what a huge number of the channels on this site are, and I do wish they were labeled and filterable that way.
Also, as someone that studied Geography extensively, it's an excellent review in that respect as well. One can quickly jump from one place to another.
Bonus points for using a globe, and not a map!
If you wanted -- and you had the data, which you probably don't -- you could make the sorting criteria the share of viewers (ie. percentage as opposed to absolute numbers), that way countries with unusually large audiences wouldn't always appear at the top. Though that comes with its own issues.