Automating show sharing

Please, please, please DO NOT USE DVA for this.


DVA is for local LAN use. If you start using it to assist in extra-LAN show sharing, you risk making it become a target of the RIAA/MPAA/Networks/DNNA and having it shutdown. A precursor to DVA had this exact thing happen when it started adding extra-LAN show sharing abilities.


If you value DVA and want to see it continue, please do not use it this way (or at least, do not speak of it in that context in a public forum)

But I thought show sharing was "legal" again since that settlement last week..no? Automating the "send show" function would be a tremendous help.


My 2 cents.

No one said it wasn't legal, I'm just asking that if you respect and appreciate DVA, you do not use it, at least publically, for these functions.


Legal status is not a shield to prevent a developer from being sued to the point where it's not economical to pursue. It has happened before and I really am trying to prevent it from ever happening again.


Remember, just one threat of a lawsuit, depending on it's severity and source, could be enough to shelve this project.

Gerry,

I understand where you are coming from, and I respect you and your awesome invention. I guess I just don't quite understand why automating a show to be sent to someone else at a certain time (instead of doing it manually) would be treading on lawsuit grounds.


Tom

Because the RIAA/MPAA/Networks do not like it and are scared. And when they are scared, they lash out. And when they want to lash out, they litigate people into oblivion.


Check out the history of SwapDV - a precursor to DVA that was shutdown due to this exact cause.

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No, they have choosen not to continue the suit, because DNNA has removed the features from newer RTVs. But, there isn't anything that would prevent them from launching a suit against us at a later date.


The Dreamer

I had already thought of this...


DVArchive code should not be used from a file sharing perspective, but from a "remote commands" perspective. A client application should receive incoming show requests and tell the replay to send the show automatically.


Things like prefixing the remote command macro with "Exit Exit Exit" and other stuff would have to be worked out, but it seems possible to me.


Bottom line is poopli needs to be automated on the sender's side.

There are other issues as well.


I don't want to send shows I recorded on Premium channels. Right now, Poopli doesn't give you a way to remove shows from their database.


There is also the issue of sending too many shows at once, severly cutting your transfer rate. Right now, I send 1 show at a time and it's really slow. I couldn't imagine how many weeks it would take if I suddenly started sending 10 shows at once. Not to mention there isn't a status on shows sent on the ReplayTV.


Finally, maybe I don't want to send shows to certain people. Perhaps they are ones that only take shows and don't send them or I've already sent 14 copies of a certain show to people and I want to save the 15th for a particular person.