It's Not TV, It's MythTV

ChipGuy writes "The New York Times looks at MythTV (an open source PVR technology), Bit Torrent and Videora and how they are disrupting the television business, especially the lucrative business of selling TV DVDs. Unlike the music industry, television folks are trying to get ahead of the curve and offer TV downloads in a legal and easy to use manner."

Comments

Re:myth

[mboverload]

Anyone who trys linux for the first time when setting up MythTV is put off. It's a freaking NIGHTMARE to get mythTV to work witt anything. MythTV has not even been updated for a whole year.

Re:Somebody's getting the idea

[Alsee]

the idea of nearly unlimited rights

LOL. I suggest you stop listening to MPAA/RIAA propaganda and actually learn a bit about copyright law. The so called "unlimited rights" you are talking about are perfectly legal and unrestricted by copyright. Things the copyright holder has no rights over. Things you do not need to ask their permission for.

additional option to rent TV

I can't imaging how you expect some "extra rental option" other than as some scheme to outlaw VCRs. Copyright holders have no right to restrict VCRs and similar personal recording.

Using a VCR is not "nearly unlimited rights". Using a VCR is legal. VCR-type recording is not restricted by copyright. The MPAA already tried to kill the VCR, and the LOST. The MPAA and friends wish copyright restricted things it does not. They would love for copyright to actually restrict these things. They constantly spew propaganda to convince people that copyright restricts these things. They hope if they can convince everyone that that is what the law says, that VCRs and similar are illegal, that they can actually change the law to make it true.

I find it scary how easily so many people mistake fair use and legal use and VCR's as some extra "nearly unlimited right", as if we didn't already have it.

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