[mythtv-users] "Odometer" Threads

[Mike Perkins]

Brian Wood wrote:
> I put this on a new thread as I suspect a lot of folks, like myself, are 
> filtering the main odometer thread.
> 
> I hate that I have become so cynical, and I want to state immediately 
> that this is probably a totally paranoid and incorrect thought, but:
> 
> With the recent victory by TiVo over DISH regarding the infringement of 
> the patent for recording one program while watching another, do we 
> really want to be giving out information that might be used against us?
> 
> Obviously anyone using more than 1 tuner is almost certainly violating 
> that patent as well, or at least could be, and Myth might be seen as 
> enabling technology.
> 
> I don't mean to accuse the OP of anything but sterling motives, there 
> are a lot of legitimate reasons for asking the original question, but 
> it's something to think about.
> 
Those of us not in the U.S. of A. might not care as much, of course. Since 
nobody actually stated a country on their entry, it might be less than trivial 
to work out exactly whom any alledged patents might apply to.

Mike Perkins