On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:02, Stephen Boddy wrote: > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 12:44, Rob Jones wrote: > > Their is the legal argument of intent though; as by doing this you are > > still technically stealing the service, regardless of the technical > > arguments of how you did though. > > Not entirely sure I agree with this. If you broadcast something over the > air in the clear I don't think you can be accused of stealing it. If I'm > sitting in the park, and Disney come along and start screening Fantasia, > they can't then turn around and accuse me of stealing. If I duck in the > back door of a cinema and watch a screening of the same film, that is > stealing, because I've circumvented the method for controlling access to > content. I personally wouldn't see this patch as having circumvented > control of access. Then again IANAL.
Further I'd just add that a pound for _1_ day of _1_ channel is rather steep. -- Steve Boddy _______________________________________________ mythtv-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
