[mythtv-users] Who needs to worry about copyright? CoreAVCforLinux removed from Google Code

Ian Forde ian at duckland.org
Tue May 6 09:12:29 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:01 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > In the name of "enforcement" of the DMCA the transaction logs of
> > US-based hosts might be subject to seizure, and lists of people who
> > downloaded the code might be turned over to the complainers. If you
> > don't think this is possible just look at what happened with telephone
> > records of the major operators in the USA...
> 
> Maybe a better example was when DirecTV got lists of people who had
> bought smartcard readers, and sued them for piracy:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6402

Yikes.  That pretty much guarantees that I'll *never* have DirectTV.
And I thought that Comcast had issues...

	-I



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