[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth
Tako Schotanus
quintesse at palacio-cristal.com
Mon Jun 21 11:39:39 EDT 2004
Renchi Raju wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Isaac Richards wrote:
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>
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>>On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:04 pm, Gary Lerhaupt wrote:
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>>
>>>I have taken Renchi Raju's mythnews plugin, revamped the GUI
>>>(borrowing from mythweather, adding a second page), and added
>>>enclosure parsing/downloading to enable bit torrent downloads from
>>>Myth. I am calling this project Torrentocracy.
>>>
>>>
>>If you can think of a _better_ way to get this project shut down, I'd be
>>interested in hearing it. Thanks for the Slashdot story, too. Now Myth is
>>going to be associated with illegal p2p crap for anyone who read it.
>>
>>
>
>i would like to chime in and say that this is a quickfire way of ensuring
>that mythtv will be branded as a project with legal burdens which
>would be enough to scare away a lot of us wanting to setup a
>"family-clean" project at home.
>
>since the code is gpl, you are free to do whatever with it. but i would
>like to request that my name be removed from the copyright messages
>present in the source code and the readme.
>
>
>
Well it seems that there actually are people who hear two things
mentioned together and jump at conclusions so probably you were right Isaac.
Strange world we live in.
-Tako
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