On Tuesday 01 February 2005 06:54, Brad Templeton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:41:25PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > There has been a lot of uproar about the recent NYT article that comes
> > very close to accusing MythTV users of being TV pirates. At the request
> > of a few people on #mythtv-users, I've posted both a letter and a
> > petition, which will be sent to the Times in a week or two (depending on
> > how many people sign). You can find them at:
> >
> > http://forevermore.net/mythtv/nyt/
> >
> > Please don't overload my poor DSL line. :)
>
> The article was written by two folks. One, John Markoff, is a friend
> of mine and I talked with him about the article. He indicated his own
> desire had been to cover the innovation end, but the co-author (Manly), who
> was the one who finished up the story, wanted to write more about the
> filesharing aspects of it.
>
> So if even John couldn't get the story to come out as he wanted, I
> don't hold a lot of hope for a letter. The letter is decent, and to
> the point (usually only one point ever gets through in a letter to
> the editor) but I've not known newspaper editors for being too sympathetic
> to complaints about being associated with bad things by being in the
> same story. But it doesn't hurt to try.
the BBC have provided a special mechanism for MythTV users (well all xmltv
users really) to get the program guide data from them, so as to reduce the
burden on their web site. as a broadcaster of some repute, their attitude to
MythTV should be acknowledged.
--
simon
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