[mythtv-users] Broadcast Flag Article mentions MythTV and quotes Issac

[Matt Grommes]

>>REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are
>>trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag. 
 >
Andy Long wrote:
> 
> ==
> 
> No, this is not "rightly" something that media companies should be
> allowed to prevent.  Under current law, they CAN'T prevent it.  It is
> perfectly legal of you to lend a copy of a movie/TV show to a friend
> to borrow and watch.  Would you assert that when you have friends
> over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they
> don't help pay your cable bill?  If you are the person who rents a
> movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also
> rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you?  The
> broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only
> person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your
> television, when both previously written law and common law say
> otherwise.  What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal
> as a form of fair use.
> 

Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the 
media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common 
sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the 
features and uses we're "allowed" to have.