Is TVC peer-to-peer?

[TVC_Colwal]

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Daniel: Wrong.

1) P2P is very very legal -- It's just a concept. Unauthorised distribution of copyrighted materials is illegal, but that has nothing to do with P2P itself.

2) A client application isn't a requirement of P2P. You seem to be misinformed on the subject -- BBC iPlayer uses P2P and it's both legal and browser-based.

Good day

Let me guess a friend of Nick's lol

I don't think you could describe Daniel with over 25 years in copyright Law 'misinformed'

[elliecat]

Shouldn't worry Col, Toastie obviously didn't bother to read Dan's post, as the first thing Dan said was that he never said P2P was illegal.....

[TVC_Admin]

@Toastie: Do you make a habit of commenting about a post you clearly haven’t even bothered to read?

(1)

I never actually said that the P2P protocol itself was illegal, I actually said that "the secondary redistribution of copyright material is unlawful"

P2P is most certainly not illegal, nobody said otherwise, but the use to which it is put could be and often does give rise to litigation. Read my post.

(2)

The BBC most certainly do not use P2P in their browser based service and it goes without saying that they have every right to distribute their own content in whatever protocol they care to choose.

Aside from replying to posts you can’t be bothered to read (or, at the least, simply don’t understand) and making sweeping and inaccurate statements, do you do any other party tricks?

You have a great day yourself. Perhaps you might want to try a little reading?

[Toastie]

My apologies, Daniel, I hadn't read your post.

However, I said you were misinformed in saying that P2P requires a client application, which isn't the case. Your mention of iPlayer I seem to have wholly missed, as I wouldn't have included it in my post had I seen it.

I was scan reading your first post, and took it to mean you thought Zattoo had invented P2P and it was completely unlawful due to what they invented it for -- My bad.

Do have a nice day, though; nice to see an administrator that can bite back for once

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[TVC_Admin]

Accepted and thanks for the grace of aplogising.

Whilst there are modular inbuilt client functionalities bundled with some browsers (versions of Mozilla and Opera spring to mind) I would hesitate to describe those as not being true applications in every sense of the word

When you've been an engineer and a lawyer for as long as I have, you'll realise that the devil is in the detail