<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:12:33AM -0500, jedi wrote:<br>
> > Torrents != Illegal. Already went over this, so I won't repeat myself and make a huge paragraph. :P<br>
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> The protocol isn't.<br>
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> The typical usage is.<br>
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> Denying this is just kidding yourself.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Maybe, but that's totally irrelevant. The MPAA haven't gone after any BT implementation. They've gone after tracker sites, which is fair enough, but not the BT programs themselves.<br></div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So, um, yeah, no. And no, those of us saying that BT qua BT is *not* a<br>
redflag inherently are relying upon *the MPAA itself* as quoted in the<br>
AfterDawn piece I linked above.<br>
<br>
So, I think it's time for a newer risk analysis on the discussion of<br>
the topic of plugins which retrieve program material for MythTV over<br>
the BitTorrent protocol. Just that. Let's not conflate, shall we, the<br>
clearly illegal sharing of programs a user has recorded off-air or<br>
ripped *via* the BitTorrent protocol, as some of the people in this<br>
thread are doing.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I agree. The MPAA clearly recognise that the protocol and the implementations
are not illegal. If they thought they had any chance of winning a suit they would have bought one - after all BT traffic is supposed to account for a significant chunk (20-35%) of all internet traffic (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Network_impact">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Network_impact</a>). Can anyone really seeing them going after MythTV for
including a BT implementation then?<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>