[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4752: Add R5000 STB Support to MythTV
Stuart Morgan
stuart at tase.co.uk
Fri Jul 17 14:48:48 UTC 2009
On Friday 17 Jul 2009 14:48:27 MythTV wrote:
> Oh FGS danielk, you haven't done any 'digging'. You are just frightened
> of what you don't understand. This is a -religious- issue for you and
> other devs.
It's not religious, it's about morality and a respect for the law? Where does
this entitlement attitude come from? It's big business, so it's ok to steal,
screw them over or break the law?
Do I like that these companies wish to restrict how I view the content I have
paid for? No, but those are the terms you agreed to when you signed the
contract.
> Are you not aware that auto commercial skip (which is built-in to MythTV)
> is ostensibly illegal? Yes, ReplayTV was actually sued for this.
ReplayTV were indicted in a criminal court? Being sued in civil court is not
quite the same thing as something being illegal e.g. violating criminal law
(DCMA) etc.
If there were a line to be drawn then commercial flagging falls decidedly on
one side whereas hacking a STB would be on the other. I'd feel fairly
confident of defending commercial flagging in a court of law (regardless of
the ReplayTV verdict) because choosing to ignore adverts is not a violation of
any law or ToS which I have agreed to.
> And are you not aware that whenever Big Media doesn't like something, they
> always, always send a cease and desist giving plenty of time for the
> 'offensive' function to be removed, before any legal action is even
> considered?
Ah, It's ok, just so long as they don't notice.
> And are you not aware that a number of very large corporations are selling
> this very function? Hauppauge has sold millions of HD-PVRs.
HD-PVR does not require modification of hardware to bypass efforts made by the
companies to protect their content? You need active component outputs on a STB
to use the HD-PVR which amounts to implicit consent, this is not the case with
the R5000.
> And SageTV and MediaCenter have had R5000 functionality BUILT IN FOREVER,
> without Big Media's permission. No different than MythTV R5000
> functionality. These are big corporations who have the legal expertise to
> actually understand the issues.
> Your fears are further proof to me that innovation in MythTV is dead. I
> look forward to XBMC.
Just what is your definition of innovation? Innovation == Something that other
media centres have "built in forever"? Innovation == Aiding illegal activity?
The developers of MythTV don't just object to additions such as a bit-torrent
client or Hulu integration because we're afraid of being sued/arrested, we
actually object because these things are WRONG. Somewhere in the last decade a
whole generation of people lost their sense of right and wrong - it's ok to
hack a cable STB, it's ok to download pirated music and video and it's ok to
get angry when software developers take a stand against it? What the hell?!?
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Stuart Morgan
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