Our study benefits, in part, from a law that allows nonprofit organizations to retransmit over-the-air television signals without charge.
If it's not for profit and geoconstrained, yes.
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/nonprofit-launches-ny...
Essentially, US gov applied pressure such that a simple tick box (to prove you are not American) is not sufficient. So, authorities definitely have precedent to enforce geo-constraints, it's just a matter of "do they care".
The video quality is really amazing.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/streaming-service-challenges-br...
AT&T added Locast to both their DirecTV and Uverse TV receivers[2], which limits the impact radius of the blackouts that are resulting from their strong-arm tactics. And in the case of DirectTV's receiver, it's a pretty seemless process as the blacked-out channels in the guide automatically redirect you to the equivalent channel in the Locast app.
A $500k donation for such convenient leverage is chump change, considering the billions of dollars that are on the line with these retransmission agreements.
[1] https://deadline.com/2019/07/cbs-blackout-directv-u-verse-at...
[2] https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/at-t-locast-is-option...
Is this legal? Aereo [0] had to shut down because broadcasters sued them for streaming OTA TV signals, which went all the way to the Supreme Court where they lost. Aereo even had an antennae per customer.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo