[mythtv] Re: RE: [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth

[Aaron Longson]

     I don't know if anyone is arguing about server space.  It's
Isaac's server, and anyone who doesn't like what he does with it can go
host their own.
     However, people arguing against the existence of such a tool are
just being silly.  Tools are tools.  Not good or bad.  Whether asshats
like me use it in ways that ignore laws that try to support an obsolete
business model matters not to the utility of such a tool.
     I know P2P is high profile right now, but you could argue that
commercial skipping has no value, at all, as a tool other than to
destroy another quickly becoming obsolete business model.
     "I wish it away!  I wish it ALL away!"

>
>As someone who runs a server used by many people, these things can
keep
>you up at night. In the end, if I were one of the main developers (I
>contributed some minor Caller ID and notification code so my name is
in
>there too) I probably wouldn't be too worried about losing a law suit
>against me based on some theory of guilt by association--I would be
>more
>worried about having to PAY some damn lawyer to defend me. As Voltaire
>once
>said: "I was financially ruined twice in my life: Once when I lost a
>law
>suit, and once when I won one."
>
>I think Isaac is on the record. If someone else want to use their own
>resources to keep a package up to date that is compatible that should
>be
>their prerogative. Personally, I don't think taking a 'gray area'
issue >like
>this posting it to /. was smart. Just because its GPL doesn't mean
that
>Isaac needs to provide links or server space for the package.
>
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