[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Victor Perez wrote:
>> On 6/22/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael Jones wrote:
>>> The best thing he could tell you is: Just wait and see what happens. We
>>> have already been told that the devs are working on it. I can't think
>>> of
>>> any group better qualified to look into the matter, or more likely to
>>> succeed.
>>>
>>>
>> What are the devs working on?, we need to know.
>
>    Actually, no.. you don't *need* to know.  You (probably) didn't know
> what
>    they were working on before the zap2it announcement, either.

Before the zap2it announcement we weren't all looking at our
MythTV installations coming to a screeching halt in the absence
of some suitable corrective action.

>
>> A deal with TMS or any other listing provider (if any) is not good
>> enough.
>
>    Says who?

With "ownership" comes the power to exclude and to do so arbitrarily.

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