Dispute between Roku and Google places YouTube TV users in the crosshairs
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Television streaming service Roku and tech giant Google are in the middle of a contract dispute that might turn people who use Google's YouTube TV into innocent bystanders.
Customers who use YouTube TV might lose access to the app because "recent negotiations with Google to carry YouTube TV have broken down because Roku cannot accept Google's unfair terms," Roku told its users in an email Monday. Google is the parent of YouTube and YouTube TV. Both sides stand to lose millions of viewers if an agreement isn't reached. YouTube TV, which launched in 2017, had more than 3 million users as of last October. Roku has more than 51 million users.Two Native Hawaiian brothers who were convicted in the 1991 killing of a woman visiting Hawaii allege in a federal lawsuit that local police framed them "under immense pressure to solve the high-profile murder" then botched an investigation last year that would have revealed the real killer using advancements in DNA technology.
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