[mythtv-users] Why has no one implemented subtext commercial filtering?

[Steve Hodge]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>> An observation to all the really smart people jumping all over this
>> guys stupid idea but if there is a web site with the cc for a show
>> isn't it ressonable that the web site would not have the commercials
>> so a compare would in fact reveal the conmmercials???
>>
>>
> It seems to me like a website providing transcripts of shows would be just
> as illegal as one providing the shows themselves.  It's not likely the
> copyright owner would publish such data, because the only use for it would
> be people recording shows, and watching it without commercials.  Not
> something they would want to facilitate or encourage.


They could also be used to add captions when they don't exist for whatever
reason. I'd expect that publishing them without the copyright owner's
permission would be a breech of copyright though.

Cheers,
Steve
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