[mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea

[Nick Rout]

There is a huge difference between recording a show for your personal
enjoyment or archiving, which is not really different to a vcr, and on
the other hand rebroadcasting it via bittorrent. myth is primarily
geared to organising the recording and viewing of live tv. That is only
legal to the extent that it is "fair use". Myth should not risk the
wrath of the tv companies by becoming a vehicle for illegal torrenting.

If you want to share programs you have recorded with myth, do so outside
the immediate myth environment. If you introduced a facility within
myth to automatically announce/seed a torrent the only conclusion that
could be drawn is that you were going to use for an illegal purpose.

I know that bittorrent has many legal uses. IMHO adding it in to mythtv
would only serve bt's detractors.


On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:31:13 -0500
Evan Alter wrote:

> The only thing I want to add to this is that although actively promoting
> stealing of copyrighted material is a terrible terrible idea for MythTV
> to become a part of we have to keep our minds open to the legal use.
> For example http://www.systm.org is an online TV show that is
> distributed over bittorrent. So long as any p2p software is geared
> towards allowing people to get that kind of content is fine.
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:54 -0400, dean collins wrote:
> > Feature Idea - NEW 
> > 
> > 
> >                                    
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV 
> > feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). 
> > 
> > The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the 
> > torrent model. 
> > 
> > In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become
> > a 
> > seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As
> > others 
> > connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become
> > servers 
> > which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact
> > so 
> > long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. 
> > 
> > I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm
> > thinking 
> > is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the
> > number 
> > of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. 
> > 
> > Just a thought 
> > 
> > -joe 
> > 
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> > I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a
> > really bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P ?Cease and desist? orders.
> > Having said that ? this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv
> > software from germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU
> > courts recently because they don?t actually cache the content only
> > pass it on.
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> > Like I said bad idea, we don?t have the funding to fight these court
> > cases.
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> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dean
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Nick Rout