El dissabte, 3 de febrer de 2018, a les 21:26:24 CET, Nicolás Alvarez va escriure: > 2018-02-03 17:07 GMT-03:00 Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org>: > > El dissabte, 3 de febrer de 2018, a les 18:07:27 CET, Camilo Higuita > > Rodriguez> > > va escriure: > >> Hi,everyone > >> > >> I'd like to discuss something with the community, and maybe get some > >> legal > >> input: > >> > >> As some of you might already know I'm working on a open online platform > >> to > >> share music information between users, such as public playlists, comments > >> on tracks and on the playback progress like soundcloud, share popular > >> music > >> suggestions, metadata, and discovery of new music from another users with > >> integration with YouTube and Spotify etc... the platform will be > >> integrated > >> into Babe music player and could be use in any other music player > >> > >> The legal matter comes here: > >> 1- I would like to either have the option to *stream live* the music an > >> user is currently listening to to a group of friends. here the music file > >> isn't being storaged in the audience computer... > >> How ilegal is it? How illegal is to stream live, but privately, > >> copyrighted > >> music? and how illegal is it to stream owns music content to a selected > >> group of friends? > >> > >> 2- If the stream part wouldn't be enought problem, I'd also like to sync > >> a > >> user playlist marked as public to some other friends, that would mean to > >> share music files between users, and technically downloading another > >> users > >> music files. How illegal is this part? how illegal is to share a music > >> file > >> for example, in a conversation in telegram or whatsapp, or even how > >> illegal > >> is it to send a mp3 to a friend over an email or even over google drive? > >> > >> I'd like to get feedback about this issues. > >> > >> As the project is going to be hosted by the KDE community this streaming > >> part won't be implemented to avoid legal issues, but however I would like > >> to have this discussion to get as many feedback as possible. > > > > I am not sure you're approaching this the right way. > > > > For me it doesn't really matter if users can do illegal stuff with our > > software, what matters is that the software is legal and that it has legal > > uses (see KTorrent). > > > > What I think you should be asking yourself is "will I/KDE be in problems > > for shipping this sofware?" more than "can my user pontentially get in > > trouble for using my sofware to do illegal stuff?". > > As I understand it, some of these Babe features would involve KDE > servers; it's not fully peer-to-peer. > > KTorrent is legal and has legal uses, and if its users use it for > illegal stuff, that's their problem. But if KDE ran a BitTorrent > tracker on its infrastructure and people used it for copyrighted > content, would we get in trouble? Even though (like ThePirateBay's > defense says) trackers don't host or distribute content, just tell > peers where the other peers are?
That's much more of a dark gray area and I would strongly advise KDE having anything to do with servers involved in that. Cheers, Albert