[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth

[Tako Schotanus]

Renchi Raju wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Isaac Richards wrote:
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>>On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:04 pm, Gary Lerhaupt wrote:
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>>>I have taken Renchi Raju's mythnews plugin, revamped the GUI
>>>(borrowing from mythweather, adding a second page), and added
>>>enclosure parsing/downloading to enable bit torrent downloads from
>>>Myth.  I am calling this project Torrentocracy.
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>>If you can think of a _better_ way to get this project shut down, I'd be
>>interested in hearing it.  Thanks for the Slashdot story, too.  Now Myth is
>>going to be associated with illegal p2p crap for anyone who read it.
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>i would like to chime in and say that this is a  quickfire way of ensuring
>that mythtv will be branded as a project with legal burdens which
>would be enough to scare away a lot of us wanting to setup a
>"family-clean" project at home.
>
>since the code is gpl, you are free to do whatever with it. but i would
>like to request that my name be removed from the copyright messages
>present in the source code and the readme.
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Well it seems that there actually are people who hear two things 
mentioned together and jump at conclusions so probably you were right Isaac.

Strange world we live in.

-Tako

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