[mythtv-users] Sharing content with friends

john roberts homepagez at lycos.com
Fri Dec 31 20:58:23 EST 2004


Sorry - I didn't mean to start a flame. :(

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan wolf" <mboverload at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sharing content with friends
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:40:04 -0800

> 
> Wow, its "NOT" legal?  Pretty stong language, my friend.  No TV
> company is going to care about 2 of nerds sharing TV recordings at
> 25kb/s upload =)  Plus if you are running the share over an encrypted
> VPN how are they gonna know, anyway?
> 
> I just calculated I could be sued for $433,350,000 for my music
> collection alone.  $9,450,000 for my application collection.  At least
> $10,500,000 for my CD image collection.  "Legality" is overblown.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:13:10 -0800, Chris Petersen
> <lists at forevermore.net> wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried to share content between remote sites/friends running 
> > mythtv?
> > > I would think if you can resolve the IP connectivity issues 
> > (fw's/VPN's/etc) you could connect each of the backends together and share 
> > content.
> > > Is this possible?
> >
> > Please read the archives before posting stuff like this.  This kind of
> > thing is NOT legal in the US, and it will not be supported in the
> > official mythtv package.
> >
> > Besides, your particular solution wouldn't be possible unless you and
> > all of your friends had 10 megabit connections.
> >
> > -Chris
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