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

Charles Lavin myth at charleylavin.com
Mon Jun 21 15:15:53 EDT 2004


Actually I think it is ok to enable skipping of commercials.  Snapstream
does it in BeyondTV.  They might have an issue with the transcoding
removing the commercials.

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:44, Gary Lerhaupt wrote:
> Isaac, I'd like to work this out with you.  Given my stance on only 
> including legal torrents, I don't think there should be anything to 
> worry about.  At least, any more than worrying about getting sued by 
> some broadcaster for allowing people to "steal" tv because myth allows 
> people to automatically skip over commercials.  
> 
> Gary
> 
> > On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:04 pm, Gary Lerhaupt wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Isaac
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