[mythtv-users] RRe: Free US/Canada Listings

Jon jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 06:46:38 UTC 2007


On Sep 9, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:26:10AM -0500, Ramon Redondo wrote:
>> Although there IS a list owner (Isaac, also the creator of MythTv).
>> It appears from at least one other message on this list recently that
>> he may be on vacation.  He has been known, at times, to ban  
>> topics.  I
>> can actually only think of one example of a forbidden topic
>> (Torrentocracy).
>
> And he banned that topic because -- well, I'll be damned -- it can  
> only
> practically be used to violate people's copyrights, and he didn't want
> the legal hassles to sprinkle down on MythTV.
>

I have to disagree with that. If you've ever used Democracy (now  
called Miro) you'd see a perfectly legitimate use of the bit-torrent  
technology to distribute video. But this is another topic, already  
addressed, and moot.




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