Ditto!! Tired of reading about it in my in-box... follow the rules set forth by Isaac it's his game and his ball...<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Petersen</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@forevermore.net">
lists@forevermore.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> 1. ReplayTV was sued because they included commercial skipping
<br>> technology in their DVR, and they lost big time. MythTV skips<br>> commercials....<br><br>MythTV hasn't been sued, and didn't ReplayTV settle? That's not a loss,<br>it's "cutting your losses."<br><br>
> 2. In the US, the DMCA says you can't bypass copy protection in order<br>> to make a backup copy of digital media, yet Myth rips commercially<br>> produced copy protected DVDs...<br><br>MythTV does no such thing. You the user have to download and install
<br>the separate DeCSS package. Those who live in countries without stupid<br>laws like the DMCA are legally allowed to install/use DeCSS, so the code<br>hooks are provided for them. MythTV is not an american-only project.
<br><br>Same goes for mp3/aac encoding -- it's totally legal to distribute<br>source code that does the encoding. Source code is not an encoder and<br>does not violate licenses. MythTV is more liable for linking to<br>GPL-violating code (mp3 is patent-encumbered and not compatible with the
<br>GPL) than for what people compile the sourcecode into (you'll notice<br>that faac/faad do not distribute binary downloads, nor does <a href="http://mythtv.org">mythtv.org</a>).<br><br>> The argument that Myth should stay away from things like bittorrent
<br>> because of it's legal questionableness (is that a word??) is pretty<br>> lame when Myth already does lots of things that could fall under the<br>> illegal category!!<br><br>Here's the deal, and I hate to reiterate what others have said, but
<br>people just don't seem to understand. Isaac is in charge of MythTV, he<br>is in charge of this mailing list. He does not want people talking<br>about bittorrent (and the unofficial mythtv plugin that supports it),<br>
nor will he ever include it as part of MythTV. For whatever reason,<br>legal or otherwise, he is within his rights to do so. If you don't like<br>it, you're more than within your rights to fork the project or write an<br>
unauthorized plugin.<br><br>> Isn't that what open source is about?? Beating the man and doing<br>> things the way we, the consumer, want them done????<br><br>Not in my world. It's about writing better software and distributing it
<br>for free. "Beating the man" is nowhere in my definition of OSS -- in<br>fact, "the man" is often quite in favor of open source software (ibm,<br>nsa, chinese government, etc, etc.).<br><br>Please kill this discussion now before people start getting kicked off
<br>the list. It's just not a topic worth arguing about.<br><br>-Chris<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
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