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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by jameshart on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:48AM (#34982328)
By analogy, lists of over-the-air TV and radio station frequencies, or unencrypted satellite channels would also be subject to takedown.
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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by Kim_Bruning on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:35AM (#34984301)
My first instinct would indeed be that attaching to a stream would be analogous to tuning your TV to a particular channel, and this m3u is a channel list.

Of course, lawyers always make it complicated.

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