[mythtv-users] possible p2p approach for mythtv information?

[Aaron Harwood]

On 02/07/2006, at 3:30 PM, David Whyte wrote:

> On 7/2/06, Aaron Harwood <aharwood at aerosoul.com.au> wrote:
>> It might also snowball to an integrated bittorrent module for sharing
>> video files and the like. Any comments?
>
> I believe this whole idea of sharing videos or movies would be
> rejected by the core developers for obvious reasons.

Yeah. That would be reasonable. I can just imagine though a 100 or less
lines of shell script that puts links from say, aMule's shared  
directory, to
filename descriptive recordings. Whether the core developers endorse  
it or
not, it may well happen and will be "connected" with MythTV. From a  
different
perspective, what is MythTV doing to prevent such sharing?

> The idea of sharing other information has been discussed in the past
> on thsi list also, and I think one of the major problems would be
> ensuring people don't screw up the data (possibly deliberatly).  For
> example, someone could flag part of a programme as a commercial, which
> would effect everyone who relies on that data.

So then we need some kind of a majority logic, e.g. getting  
information from
a number of peers and then only accepting information that a majority of
peers agree on. For cut lists, this would be a kind of "union"  
agreement.

-a