On Fri, 2007-18-05 at 17:35 +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > While this could be a nice plugin for people with a newsserver > providing these files, I'm against adding it to Freevo core. Freevo is > registered to me (both on sf and the domain itself) and such a plugin > would be illegal in Germany and I don't like having that kind of > problem.
Under what law would it be illegal in Germany? Usenet is practically another www. There is a lot of copyrighted material under a license that prohibits distribution (in some jurisdictions) but also a lot of freely distributable stuff. Frankly I don't see why such a plugin would be any more illegal than a web browser plugin. Now, if the default was to setup grabbing from groups like alt.binaries.tv, then an argument could be made. But in any case, it makes no difference to me if this is distributed with freevo. If it's something that makes you uncomfortable that's fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
