Exactly, as I said in the original email - we are just asking for trouble if we go down that path.
Dean -----Original Message----- From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:37 PM To: dean collins Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] "Feature Idea - P2P" Bad Idea It already exists. It won't ever (at least in today's society) be implemented into the main myth code. Look for torrentocracy. We (myth users) don't need the MPAA or RIAA looking over our shoulders more than they probablyt already are. Paul >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/05 1:54 PM >>> Feature Idea - NEW ________________________________ I'm sitting here downloading a few torrents when an idea for a mytTV feature popped into my head (it's prolly because of the heat). The idea of combining a media sharing applet into mythTV based on the torrent model. In other words, as you're watching a particular TV channel, you become a seed where others can watch the same channel you're watching. As others connect to your server to watch the stream, they themselves become servers which others can connect to, and the video stream would remain intact so long as the original seed continued to watch a particular station. I don't know if I'm explaining this well, or if I am, if what I'm thinking is possible, but if it were, the idea of being able to increase the number of channels you have available to could be quite exciting. Just a thought -joe _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users I agree with what everyone else posted about this in that it is a really bad idea to open Myth tv to P2P 'Cease and desist' orders. Having said that - this feature is really similar to the Cybersky.tv software from germany, they have won quite a few cases in the EU courts recently because they don't actually cache the content only pass it on. Like I said bad idea, we don't have the funding to fight these court cases. Cheers, Dean
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