# SopCast streaming TV - anybody know about it?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sopcast-streaming-tv-anybody-know-about-it/382745>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 3, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sopcast-streaming-tv-anybody-know-about-it/382745 "2006-12-03T22:45:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sopcast-streaming-tv-anybody-know-about-it/382745/1 "2006-12-03T22:45:54Z")

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Home page [here](http://www.sopcast.com/). Anybody familiar with this? Is it risky?

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**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sopcast-streaming-tv-anybody-know-about-it/382745/2 "2006-12-03T23:25:10Z")

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The client looks a little shady, but it came up clean after a spyware scan.

Legally… it’s questionable, especially when streaming sports programming, since I’d wager the NFL (or NBA) legal team would call it "rebroadcasting without express written consent.)