Jason Tackaberry wrote: > No, it would look like Freevo supporting BitTorrent. What users do with > that support isn't the developers' concern. What's considered illegal > depends on jurisdiction. For example, in Canada, it's not illegal to > download MP3s. > > I have a problem with statements like "technology X is bad because it > enables illegal thing Y." First of all, it makes the implication that X > is only useful for Y, and moreover it makes an assumption that Y is > illegal for everyone just because it is for you. Statements like these > are made by individuals or companies suckling the teat of corporate > record and movie industries. I know you well enough to say you don't > fall into this category. :)
But these people and companies have more many than I do as project maintainer and if they see it this way, they could make me responsible for this. This may sound strange, but the music and video industry doesn't work with logic (e.g. they fight against the possiblity for me playing my DVDs). So yes, I know you can use bt for something else. But bt inside a multimedia center. And they _know_, most of the stuff is illegal (e.g. the music industry _knows_ that 80% of all cds are used to copy audio disc, the video industry also _knows_ that 70% are used to copy movies). You can find many examples for this kind of things, like Napster. > Now, I wouldn't advocate that you go code up bt support because your > time is better spent elsewhere. But I definitely take exception with > the statement that supporting bt necessarily means Freevo "supports > illegal downloads." As long as I don't see many legal downloads, I won't put it into Freevo cvs. I'm not paranoia, I know these people are sick and only want to make money. When podcasting with video gets more and more public, legal stuff would increase and I would include it. But even if not, a plugin like this can be external. Dischi -- As I said before, I never repeat myself.
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