[mythtv-users] Day Dream MythTV P2P Network

[Joe Schmidt]

A separate project to handle P2P videos would be about as legal as any 
other filesharing network, and it COULD be an avenue for legal 
broadcasts (public domain or self-created works). I agree that MythTV 
should stay in the clear, but I'd be glad to work on a project alongside 
MythTV that accomplishes streaming P2P. Isolate it from MythTV, but 
perhaps make them compatible? I should be worrying about getting MythTV 
working first, at any rate.

An idea I had: Someone in Ireland views a streamed broadcast from a 
server in France. A person in Germany connects to the person in Ireland, 
another German connects to the first German, the German connects to 
someone in England, a person in the United States connects to a person 
in England, and a person in Canada connects to the person in the United 
States. If we treated clients as servers, and made routes to different 
broadcasts based on latency, we could have a pretty far-reaching, 
scalable network without having some dedicated high-capacity central 
servers.


Cedar McKay wrote:

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>>> possible that some big powerful companies would come sniffing around
>>> trying to find something illegal about what we do.
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>>     Not to get all high and mighty on the Jeffersonian Democracy 
>> thing, but I always look at incumbent power as a challenge, not 
>> something to be hiding from. Call me crazy ...
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> I agree. That is why I think we need to be completely legal and have 
> all our ducks in a row. That way if someone big does get aggressive 
> with us we can tell them to stuff it, and fight them like hell. Free 
> council from sypathetic lawyers or perhaps the EFF is likely to 
> follow. If we are not completely legal we are in a much tougher spot, 
> and are less likely to get support from friendly lawyers. We need to 
> be in a position of strength. Also, I am all for pushing to the limits 
> of our freedom, particulary with respect to fair use. I'm just 
> suggesting we don't wander off into areas that are clearly illegal.
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> Cedar