[mythtv-users] MythTV and BitTorrent?

Johan johan.vanderkolk at dommel.be
Fri Jul 18 18:02:45 UTC 2008


The whole discussion remains hypothetical. 

Dev's dont want to be risking the future of myth by installing a
protocol highly associated with illegal actions. That is their right and
their choice. Take it or leave it.

BT is an excellent and smart protocol, but one could argue that in the
context of a video oriented application the protocol would be used to
download video material. 
And here is the issue: 99% of the video material on P2P networks and
downloadable by BT is at least copyrighted (for use in your OWN living
room and not for distribution) on plain illegal.

Therefore I understand and support the decision from the Dev's not to
associate MythTV with BT. 

I could if I would like still install another BT client and store the
video's in the video directory. My choice to do so.


Johan




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