On Wednesday 02 February 2005 18:32, Brad Templeton wrote: > Everybody has (mostly correctly) ripped poor Simon a new one for asking why > these tools are there. They are perfectly legal and are used all the time > for perfectly legal uses. > > However, there is a deeper subtext to this issue. People like the MPAA > and RIAA put a lot of pressure to get features similar to these, along > with commercial skip and the ability to transfer unencrypted video files, > removed from commercial products. Those efforts are wrong, and get > fought in the courts. But many of those efforts are outside the courts, > and consist of simply pressuring or scaring companies like Tivo not to > put in features. > > Most of us probably run MythTV not because we're hoping our open box > can let us violate copyrights all day, we just want an open box that > doesn't impose artificial restrictions on what we do to satisfy somebody > else's paranoia. > > But the paranoid are clever, and good at the game. For example, I recall > seing a quote that because of fear of lawsuits, MythTV would probably > never incorporate the sort of features that really raise the wrath of > the MPAA, like filesharing gateways. Of course, any MythTV user with > a small amount of savvy can take a file from their mythbox and put it > on a filesharing network, so it's not as though this can be stopped from > happening -- but nonetheless the fear campaigns get some success. Even > people on this list, who use the tools all the time, ask questions like > the above. > > Many of us left Tivo behind because we want a box that is built only > in the interests of its user, not that of the builder or advertisers > or the media owners of the building company. But unfortunately, the > ability to do that needs to be defended.
no - i still only have one :-) but i did hit a nerve, methinks i use transcode almost every day - i have a bug with it currently which won't let me mpeg2mpeg an episide of desperate housewives all my cd's are ripped - and it is to protect them - with teenage sons who never put them back in their cases they are all scratched to hell. now i have some cd's that were only emer used one - and that was to rip them with mythmusic. you as chairman of the board of the eff probably have forgotten more about this subject than i will ever know, but i just wonder about sticking our head above the parapet. sometimes it gets noticed. -- simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
