Question about capturing webcast radio stations

[steven robinson]

Likely to be available for direct download perhaps but not necessarily and
that's hardly the point. The point is that it is outrageous to make
assumptions that all stream ripping is illegal. There are musos that support
copyleft too and there are more and more every day. It is wrong to brand
somebody a criminal without obtaining the facts. FOSS devs don't have a
monopoly on free licenses - that's fact.
So you are saying that I'm free to implement a plasmoid to rip streams but
not free to talk about it on the list because it's off topic?? Writing a
plasmoid for amarok2 is off topic?  So me posting that link to an amarok
script to rip streams in amarok 1 was off topic too? WTF?? I fail to grasp
your logic.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jan Holthuis <jan at holmek.de> wrote:

> Am Montag, 25. Mai 2009 08:10:59 schrieb steven robinson:
> > There is a plugin for amarok 1 to rip streams. I haven't tried it but I
> am
> > told it works well.
> > http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=32842
>
> And why do you post that on the official mailing list? The Amarok
> developers
> have _nothing_ to do with that. It's a script written by some random person
> and it's way more helpful for all of us if you ask the person itself.
>
> > This sounds like a good project for somebody to write a plasma applet for
> > amarok 2.
>
> Feel free to implement such a plasmoid. I'm almost sure that the Amarok
> devs
> won't.
>
> > PS: assuming that people are trying to illegally rip copyrighted content
> is
> > an outrageous assertion and unworthy of this list. There is plenty of
> > copylefted music out there. I never thought I'd hear "sharing music is
> > always illegal" here - do you think that only programmers release their
> > work under free licenses? I am shocked by the attitudes I am reading from
> > some people here. Is this a FOSS list or an RIAA one?
>
> If the music we're talking about was under a free license, it's likely that
> you can download the tracks directly instead of ripping them from a radio
> stream.
>
> > Also, talking about trying to interface amarok to a stream ripper is
> hardly
> > off topic in an amarok list.
>
> It is.
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