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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB">I am
sorry I do not agree. Maybe if you only use FreeView where the EPG
information is easy. But for paid TV it is different. EPGSnoop is a
very good thing, I am thankful every day for the person who wrote it, but it is difficult to install for many and especially new people to
Linux. I often demonstrate and tell people about MythTV and always
finish by say it is very difficult to set-up and maintain. And not
recommending they try. If the paid TV EPG information was as
available as Freeview information I really think it would make a
different. It may not be broken – but can it be made easier and better. I
remember how much easier it was before 2010 with the excellent EPG
tutorials.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" lang="en-GB">Tim<br></p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Hadley Rich <<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz">hads@nice.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 23/10/14 15:10, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> There is plenty of law that holds that EPG data is not the subject of<br>
>> copyright, as it is simply a compilation of facts. There is such law<br>
>> in Oz, which is probably the closest to us jurisprudentially. Of<br>
>> course no one wants a fight with Sky to establish this in NZ law. See<br>
>> <a href="http://techliberty.org.nz/skys-takedown-notices/" target="_blank">http://techliberty.org.nz/skys-takedown-notices/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Great word. A great shame that no one has been able to prove that here yet.<br>
> Ignoring that can of worms;<br>
><br>
> Perhaps using Bittorrent is worse considering the current state of the law<br>
> in NZ regarding file sharing. Isn't there a distinction that specifically<br>
> covers peer to peer but not direct download.<br>
<br>
</span>This whole discussion is silly. There isn't a problem. Nothing needs fixing.<br>
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