[mythtv-users] OT: mencoder recording

[David Brodbeck]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 09/15/2008 10:07 PM, Bob wrote:
>> My neighborhood has "on demand" now.  I can tune to 1 of about 5 
>> channels and sometimes get lucky and find a show playing.  I have a 
>> spare DVB tuner (as you noticed) and would like to create a cron job to 
>> detect when content is available.  Once I determine that content is 
>> available, I can use mythweb to schedule the recording.
> 
> Perhaps you can find another location to discuss how to 
> steal^H^H^H^H^Hrecord shows that you didn't pay to see.
> 
> I know, "But the cable co isn't encrypting it."  Well, the books in my 
> local library aren't encrypted, but copying them is still a violation of 
> copyright law (and, no, fair use doesn't apply to either the VOD or book 
> argument, as we're not talking about a brief passage).  And, even if you 
> can find a way to make it not a copyright violation, I'm sure there are 
> plenty of service agreement violations as you're not the one who's 
> paying your cable company to watch the show.

Does this mean people who are receiving QAM signals while not paying for 
a "digital package" are also stealing, in your view?