[mythtv-users] HD Homerun Prime with MythTV

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
>> This is what bugs me most about the anti-circumvention legislation.  I
>> wish it worked like burglars' tools laws, where using such tools to
>> commit a crime increases the penalty for the crime, but using the
>> tools for something which isn't illegal (e.g. picking the lock when
>> you've locked your keys in your own car) isn't illegal.
>>
>> The tools exist.  People who want to use them to do illegal things are
>> going to get them, laws or not.  The only people hurt by the
>> anti-circumvention laws are people who want to be legit.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.
>
> Check out these links.. ESPECIALLY the 2nd link that specifically mentions
> DVD's for fair use.

The problem is that the approach being taken is that the Library of
Congress is creating a white-list of allowed reasons to circumvent
these locks.  Anything that they haven't considered and given a thumbs
up is therefore forbidden.  This is completely the opposite of most
laws, which try to say what can't be done and anything not listed can.

This year they ok'd jailbreaking phones and copying portions of DVDs
for inclusion in other published works under fair use rules.  It
doesn't really help MythTV much.

Eric