[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/27/14, 12:26 PM, CACook at Quantum-Sci.com wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:09:30 -0500
> "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> No, devs hate it because it seems to be a direct violation of Dish 
>> network's Terms of Service.
>>
>> See
>> http://www.dish.com/legal/
>> and
>> http://www.dish.com/downloads/legal/Residential-Agreement.pdf?WT.svl=video-plan-agreements-files
>> (especially section 4.G. "You agree that you will not try to 
>> reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble, /nor will you tamper with
>> or modify, any software or hardware contained within any receiver of
>> Smart Card. Such actions are strictly prohibited and may result in
>> the termination of this Agreement, disconnection of your Services
>> and/or legal action.")
> Thank you for your concern over my contract with Dish.  But this has absolutely nothing to do with Myth or Myth devs (or you), and Myth is not subject to any sort of legal action as --Myth does not have a contract with Dish--.
>
> Be advised that the receiver --does not belong to Dish-- and therefore those passages are irrelevant.  And I haven't "tampered" with any software nor reverse-engineered anything.
>
Did you go to a special school in being wrong?
Look up http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 .
Trafficking in circumvention methods is unlawful. End of story.
I'm an information security professional. Part and parcel of my duties
is knowing what the law says and ensuring compliance with the law.
>>> I tried and tried to tell you guys for four years but nobody would
>>> listen.  But at least I now have seven years of pure HD digital
>>> video stored, compressed by Dish's $50k encoders and not
>>> de/re-compressed...  just like God intended.
>> And I won't even mention the fact that "fair use" in the US
>> encompasses "time shifting", which does /not/ seem to include
>> "archiving" or "librarying."  In other words, "time shifting" means
>> recording a show for viewing at a later time that's more convenient
>> for the viewer, but does not allow you to record a show to keep
>> "indefinitely."  Oh, wait, did I just mention that?
> Did you know that 'time shifting' is exactly what Myth was made for?
>
> And how do you explain this automatic commercial skip?  That violates the terms of service that Dish has with every one of their advertisers.  Did you know that ReplayTV was sued out of existence for this very thing, and that Dish is currently being sued for their Hopper commercial skip?  How is this exempt from your ostensible 'arguments'?  (Or is commercial skip a personal favorite of yours...)
>
>
>> So please don't discuss the R-5000 on this list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
> The R5000 is relevant to this thread.
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