[mythtv-users] MTD going away

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 21:52:30 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Michelle Dupuis <mdupuis at ocg.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this a fully automated process?  I rip DVD's that I rent and then leave
>>> them as ISO's until I want to watch them.  If you can convert to a fraction
>>> of the size, keep the quality, and make it fully automated, I'd be
>>> interested to do that too!
>>
>> Arrrr!  That be piracy.  You may want to consider NOT broadcasting such
>> things on public mailing lists.
>
> could be kind of a gray area depending on where you live.  if you rent
> more DVDs than you can watch before you have to return them, rip them
> and watch them later, delete the rips after you've watched them,
> you're just time shifting.  :)  not exactly legal, but not exactly
> illegal either, depending on your local...

No.  No.  No.  NO.

"It might possibly be perceived as legal, where I live" is NOT, and
has NEVER BEEN a valid excuse on this list.

Many people talk about how they want to give back to MythTV?  Please.
Consider this the cost of using Myth.  Do your tiny bit by being
mature and keeping talk like this off our list so that we can go on
delivering fine, free software to you.  That's *all* we ask-- that
people behave according to the rules of our community.  It's hurtful
when we share our work for nothing, and people can't even show us the
minimal respect of conforming to our relatively lax rules.

Robert


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