Selling hardware bundled with XBMC?

davilla Wrote:Ask a lawyer if you don't know and are thinking about doing this as a company. Anything else would be silly.

Im so poor i cannot afford a lawyer. thats why i asked here. where can i find the license? cant seem to find it through google.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

lloydsmart Wrote:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

i was asking about blu ray license. is that the blu ray license?

no.. that's not the blruray license. Of course buying a bluray won't allow you to do what you are asking to.. you can't rent or redistribute it. You could physically rent it if you do a videoclub (don't how you call it in the US) like blockbuster or similar.

But I bet you want to do something like netflix, streaming the movie to customers who paid for it. You'll need a lawyer, loads of money and something that will report huge profits to the studios.. forget it.

Also, I think in the US you aren't allowed to do any copies of the bluray, even if you own the disc. I think in the US it was even illegal to play a DVD using the computer?

lets say i own a shop. a barber shop for example. in the waiting room i screen bluray movies which are hosted on a file server. the bluray movie in the file server is copied (decrypt, remux) from original bluray disc.

to recap, i own the original disc, i make copies of it in my hdd, i screen the movie privately (only to my waiting customer). is this legal? if not why? i own the original disc. i didnt distribute. i didnt make money from it(didnt charge customer for viewing).

Ah, you COULD get in trouble for that publicENEMY, not necessarily because of the copying or breaking DRM, but because your playing it in a public area where members of the public could see it might constitute a public performance, which is not fair use.

okay guys. now i should abandon this idea.

i wonder, how one could really make money out of xbmc? i guess, if anybody can make money out of xbmc, then the developer of xbmc have already done so and become filthy rich(not that they arent now).

cheers.

you are selling your service of "setting up" the hardware and XBMC so of course it isn't illegal. Heck even if they had all the hardware setup and all they needed was XBMC installed and configured you could make money.. Key difference is you are selling your time & expertise, not the product. Just make it clear that the software is free and can download it from xbmc.org.

I really don't understand that fair use, I guess all the kids running around with
their stereo's blaring to turn them down so I can't hear their stereos or get
some headphones..

(2011-08-26 04:04)natethomas Wrote:  Ah, you COULD get in trouble for that publicENEMY, not necessarily because of the copying or breaking DRM, but because your playing it in a public area where members of the public could see it might constitute a public performance, which is not fair use.

(2011-08-25 17:42)publicENEMY Wrote:  

davilla Wrote:Ask a lawyer if you don't know and are thinking about doing this as a company. Anything else would be silly.

Im so poor i cannot afford a lawyer. thats why i asked here. where can i find the license? cant seem to find it through google.

Contacting a laywer for this type of reason would not cost you a dime. They work off of commission. They would take a percentage (usually around 30%) of whatever you or they could gain in a law suit. Lawyers will not charge for questions like this or they would be slapping away customers right and left.