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<font face="Arial">So let me get this straight. If I use my Comcast
cable for only about 8 channels one of which is Fox. I hear Neal
Boortz say that he missed 24 last night, so I burn him a copy to DVD.
(With or without the commercials. We can argue it both ways.) And
when I mail it to him, I've committed a crime. If I do the same thing
using a c-band dish, it is not a crime. The difference is $0.26 per
month on c-band, and $80 per month divided by 8 channels for $10 per
month on Comcast.<br>
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Is that correct? We need to pool so resources and turn MythTV into
MythIPTV.<br>
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Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Monday 30 January 2006 16:03, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sarvinc@fastmail.fm">sarvinc@fastmail.fm</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Joseph A. Caputo wrote:>
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<pre wrap="">You'd also need redistribution rights from the broadcasters, which
I believe would mean that you'd need a c-band dish so you can work
it out with them directly (since the cable company certainly won't
give it to you).
Nope, they most likley won't. Whew, yeah getting distribution
rights is going to be good. Not all that difficult from what I
understand, just expensive.
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<pre wrap="">I seem to recall an article posted here a year or two back about
someone in Canada who had done this, and the redistribution rights
were ridiculously cheap. It just made me all the more annoyed with
the cable company/big content cartel.
If I find the article I'll re-post it.
-JAC
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<pre wrap="">I think that's this article:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html">http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html</a>
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That's it. Here's the relevant part:
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At this point, intellectual property lawyers are supposed to start
reaching for their telephones to call Canada, but it won't do any good
because all this content is perfectly legal and here's how. With the
exception of local channels, which come from an antenna, all of
Andrew's video content comes from a C-band (big dish) satellite
receiver (receivers, actually), and is fully paid for. "I buy the
channels just like a cable system does or a motel that wants to offer
HBO, from the National Programming Service," says Andrew. "And as a
result I pay wholesale prices. People don't realize how much of a
markup there in is the cable business. The Discovery Networks, for
example, cost me $0.26 per customer per month. The IP laws in both the
U.S. and Canada say that if I have legal access to this content I can
store and use it. And the over-the-air channels, of course, are free."
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-JAC
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I may have missed the answer there, in which case, please point out the article to me, but don't say "check forum X."
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