The TV companies said FilmOn.com is violating copyright by taking the free-to-air signals and streaming them.
New York: Four major US television networks Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC won a temporary restraining order against FilmOn.com Plc, a company that streams the signals of TV stations over the Web without permission of the networks, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the order, the paper said.
The TV companies have said FilmOn.com is violating copyright laws by taking the free-to-air signals and streaming them without permission or compensation.
Fox is owned by News Corporation, CBS by CBS Corp, ABC is a unit of Walt Disney Co and NBC is a unit of General Electric Co.
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