On 7/7/05, Matt Grommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of > the pvrs _will_ have an integrated way to get net content, you can be > sure of that. If Myth doesn't have it, it'll be one more reason for > people not to use it. >
Perhaps you're missing a large point here. Most of the developers of Myth don't care if you use it or not. They're working on it because they want to use it or they enjoy working on it. Yes, a larger user base provides better testing and some other benefits, but remember that this is not a commercial venture. This is Isaac's pet project that has taken off into something that many people want to use. He's happy to share that with those of us who want to use it. If you'd rather use something else, knock yourself out. I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it and I'm sure Isaac won't either. > This is exactly the kind of chilling of innovation the media companies > want. They don't have to make a technology illegal if everybody pees > themselves with fear when they come within arm's length of it. There's > already enough legal content to make this argument invalid and there's > only going to be more in the coming months/years. The argument may be invalid, but that still doesn't stop any of those media companies from bringing a lawsuit against the Myth community/developers. They don't have to prove that anything illegal was done, they just have to force the defendant to pay fees (lawyer, etc) that are more than the defendant can afford. Maybe if you provide, up-front, the massive cash reserves that would be needed to defend that court case someone will consider developing this, but I doubt it. Until then, I think it's very clear that the majority of the folks involved with Myth don't wany any parts of any P2P app associated with Myth and Isaac has certainly made his views on that topic very clear on repeated occasions. It's his project. If you want to play with it, you play by his rules. If you don't like those rules, find another project. I know some of that message sounds pretty harsh. I don't intend it to be insulting or anything like that. It's just that this P2P discussion comes up frequently enough that it's getting annoying to me. It has been repeatedly made clear that the people behind Myth don't want this in the current environment so why does this discussion keep happening? _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
