[mythtv-users] DVD Ripping was: Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 09:42:42 UTC 2007


On 21/06/07, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> Tom Greer wrote:
> >
> > If Myth users so intent on not doing as I have done, then why is there
> > a MythVideo module at all?  Are you trying to suggest that most Myth
> > users don't have this plugin activated?
> >
> Don't forget that there are Mythtv users in other parts of the globe
> (they do exist! really!) where absurd guff like the DMCA doesn't apply.
>
> Despite the present deluge of mail regarding zap2it, etc. the Mythtv
> product is international. Please remember that some of us are able to do
> things the US authorities would rather it's citizens didn't.

Though this thread seems to have already established that this 'us'
doesn't include the EU, which has very similar laws to the US
preventing DVD and CD ripping (see the link to the BBC news story)


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