[mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

[Andy Long]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:09:36 +0000, Allan Stirling
<Dibblahmythml0015 at pendor.org> wrote:
> Maverick wrote:
> > Thought some of you all might want to read...
> >
> > http://www.sfbg.com/39/22/cover_fcc.html
> >
> 
> The article is great - Mainly. However, opening with this quote:
> 
> 'ALL I WANT  is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend," says Sarah Brydon,
> looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers.
> 

==

> REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are
> trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. 

==

No, this is not "rightly" something that media companies should be
allowed to prevent.  Under current law, they CAN'T prevent it.  It is
perfectly legal of you to lend a copy of a movie/TV show to a friend
to borrow and watch.  Would you assert that when you have friends
over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they
don't help pay your cable bill?  If you are the person who rents a
movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also
rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you?  The
broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only
person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your
television, when both previously written law and common law say
otherwise.  What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal
as a form of fair use.


And MythTV is
> appearing to be referred to consistently in this light.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Allan.
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