I will get in touch with the kde e.v. I just want to make clear that I wouldn't implement such system without discussing it beforehand with the community. This is just an open discussion I wanted to have to get feedback.
The platform I'm working on so far has nothing to be sorry about, legally. Camilo On Feb 3, 2018 5:27 PM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > El dissabte, 3 de febrer de 2018, a les 21:26:24 CET, Nicolás Alvarez va > escriure: > > 2018-02-03 17:07 GMT-03:00 Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org>: > > > El dissabte, 3 de febrer de 2018, a les 18:07:27 CET, Camilo Higuita > > > Rodriguez> > > > va escriure: > > >> Hi,everyone > > >> > > >> I'd like to discuss something with the community, and maybe get some > > >> legal > > >> input: > > >> > > >> As some of you might already know I'm working on a open online > platform > > >> to > > >> share music information between users, such as public playlists, > comments > > >> on tracks and on the playback progress like soundcloud, share popular > > >> music > > >> suggestions, metadata, and discovery of new music from another users > with > > >> integration with YouTube and Spotify etc... the platform will be > > >> integrated > > >> into Babe music player and could be use in any other music player > > >> > > >> The legal matter comes here: > > >> 1- I would like to either have the option to *stream live* the music > an > > >> user is currently listening to to a group of friends. here the music > file > > >> isn't being storaged in the audience computer... > > >> How ilegal is it? How illegal is to stream live, but privately, > > >> copyrighted > > >> music? and how illegal is it to stream owns music content to a > selected > > >> group of friends? > > >> > > >> 2- If the stream part wouldn't be enought problem, I'd also like to > sync > > >> a > > >> user playlist marked as public to some other friends, that would mean > to > > >> share music files between users, and technically downloading another > > >> users > > >> music files. How illegal is this part? how illegal is to share a music > > >> file > > >> for example, in a conversation in telegram or whatsapp, or even how > > >> illegal > > >> is it to send a mp3 to a friend over an email or even over google > drive? > > >> > > >> I'd like to get feedback about this issues. > > >> > > >> As the project is going to be hosted by the KDE community this > streaming > > >> part won't be implemented to avoid legal issues, but however I would > like > > >> to have this discussion to get as many feedback as possible. > > > > > > I am not sure you're approaching this the right way. > > > > > > For me it doesn't really matter if users can do illegal stuff with our > > > software, what matters is that the software is legal and that it has > legal > > > uses (see KTorrent). > > > > > > What I think you should be asking yourself is "will I/KDE be in > problems > > > for shipping this sofware?" more than "can my user pontentially get in > > > trouble for using my sofware to do illegal stuff?". > > > > As I understand it, some of these Babe features would involve KDE > > servers; it's not fully peer-to-peer. > > > > KTorrent is legal and has legal uses, and if its users use it for > > illegal stuff, that's their problem. But if KDE ran a BitTorrent > > tracker on its infrastructure and people used it for copyrighted > > content, would we get in trouble? Even though (like ThePirateBay's > > defense says) trackers don't host or distribute content, just tell > > peers where the other peers are? > > That's much more of a dark gray area and I would strongly advise KDE having > anything to do with servers involved in that. > > Cheers, > Albert > > > >
