[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7

[Bryan J. Smith]

I didn't take offense.
And I know you were talking to others as well.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:   tr_data1
Date:  04-12-3 15:01
To:  discuss at ntlug.org
Subj:  [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7

B.S., er, Brian :-), my stmt was not directed solely at you, hence
"you _GUYS_ ...".  I've received several emails from members of 
this list accusing me of wanting to pirate TV shows or otherwise
break the law. Re-read my orig. post of this topic. I was ASKING
if torrent is a legal means of me [timeshifting] an OTA TV show. 

>I kept my responses to 100 percent business and technical.

So, is questioning my nationality a bus. or tech. topic?  :-)
Not that it's relevant to the topic but, I'm 100% American.  Born 
here and family tree here too, well, at some point everyone's 
linage is not from USA but...

>1) The government does not and has never invented ant consumer =
>electronics.

I never said the gov. INVENTED, just helped it be possible. For 
example: HDTV. Do you honestly believe we would have FREE HDTV
broadcasts (at least within this decade) if it wasn't for the gov. 
MANDATING x% broadcasts be in HDTV by y date? Again, it is 
still not relevant to my original [RETRACTED!] question.

>2) As far as A/V downloading over the Internet, the bandwidth 

IIRC, BitTorrent works by getting pieces of a file from diff systems,
not the whole file from one system. It's entirely possible, technically,
right now. And being done, right now. Legally? Doubtful (and 
therefore not an option for me.) But, AGAIN, I already stated that 
I AGREE it is not a good use of bandwidth. 

>(especially anything about involving govenment is scary to me).

Tell you what, buy an HDTV PVR after July 2005. Then the day 
you get a "recording denied" type of message (thanks to the
broadcast flag saying recording is't allowed) when trying to 
timeshift an OTA non-PPV TV show - you might realize just
how valid my gripe is about the broadcast flag. 

Still object to what I say? Fine. Can we just move on and agree
that we simply have different OPINIONS?  I don't care to waste
any more time bantering symantics or other non-reletant replies
to a topic the I've already requested an end to.
=TR=

PS: Brian, please try not to take offense (notice the smilies!)


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