[mythtv-users] Legality of selling MythTV and its Components?

[Brian Wood]

On May 2, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Allan Wilson wrote:

>
> So I messed up with the free statement. But the agree more with  
> Disconnect. I don't think any company is going to make millions off  
> of Myth but if a few small industries guys wanna try something then  
> more power to them and I think there is a market. The customers  
> will still have to do a few things like zap2it and install libdecss  
> but they can choose not to and have a non-functional box. Those two  
> features are 2 of the easier things to do with Myth anyhow. I agree  
> that for right now there is no way in the near future my  
> grandmother is going to use Myth but if I would love to be able to  
> point a friend to someone that will give them a mythbox and provide  
> support for it to get some of the cooler features that I love and  
> enjoy. By the way how much longer are we going to be sucking off  
> the teat of the current entertainment industry any way when you  
> have some decent stuff getting produced now such as dl.tv and video  
> podcasts. This is where the market is going just like it did with  
> podcasts to begin with. At first it's all tech stuff then the rest  
> of the world comes around and you have choices. We are just stuck  
> at a funny juncture at this point. Even if they lock everything  
> down someone will come up with content that those rebels will want  
> to watch. But that's just my opionon. In all honesty we are in the  
> lucky crowd to be able to understand how to make Myth work and get  
> to enjoy it. By the way what about plutohome aren't they using Myth  
> as a main component of their system. I don't know if they really  
> have a business model?

You have put your finger on the real problem: Content.

The only time I ever watched anything from the major US networks was  
the CBS Evening News and sometimes 60 minutes.

Now they have gone and screwed up the Evening News pretty well, Katy  
Couric ?? Come on. I could possibly see her as a "reader" (as the BBC  
accurately calls them) but "Managing Editor"?? Get Real. The  
successor to Murrow and Cronkite ? The battle between the  
Entertainment and News divisions is over, and the loser is the viewer.

Hollywood's output in recent years sucks as well. If it isn't a re- 
make or a sequel they won't even try, and they are never as good as  
the original, Just Crap, with one or two notable exceptions that  
prove the rule.

The days when people would watch whatever the "Big Three" (at the  
time) chose to put out are over. I really can't see anyone willing to  
pay money for "Desperate HouseActresses" or "Lust", in order to view  
it on a 2" iPod screen, that's nuts.

As long as Myth can grab stuff off TCM, or even TVLand, I'll have  
somehting to watch, but it won't be a recent production.

If they would put half the effort into producing something worth  
watching as they do into "protecting" their crap we would have some  
real art to record.
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