[mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea

[dean collins]

Exactly, as I said in the original email - we are just asking for
trouble if we go down that path.

Dean

-----Original Message-----
From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:pwilliamson at mandtbank.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:37 PM
To: dean collins
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea

It already exists.

It won't ever (at least in today's society) be implemented 
into the main myth code.

Look for torrentocracy.

We (myth users) don't need the MPAA or RIAA looking 
over our shoulders more than they probablyt already are.

Paul

>>> dean at collins.net.pr 04/06/05 1:54 PM >>>
Feature Idea - NEW 

________________________________

I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV 
feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). 

The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the 
torrent model. 

In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become
a

seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As others

connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become
servers 
which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact
so

long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. 

I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm
thinking 
is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the
number 
of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. 

Just a thought 

-joe 

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I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a
really
bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P 'Cease and desist' orders. Having said
that - this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv software from
germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU courts recently
because they don't actually cache the content only pass it on.

 

Like I said bad idea, we don't have the funding to fight these court
cases.

 

Cheers,

Dean