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Comment by eegilbert | Hacker News Reader

I've been internet-only for over 3 years now. No cable. I have an antenna for live sports.

There is still so much room in this space, and Netflix is more vulnerable than they look. No matter what set-top box you buy (e.g, Roku, Apple TV) or software you use (e.g., Boxee, Clicker), something important is left out. Please, somebody, make something solid.

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Can't happen legally until copyright law is modified. The media companies are deeply involved in shenanigans like this, used as mechanisms to attempt to restrain consumers within the bonds of "traditional" formats like CDs and cable.

If you want to set up Boxee to plug in to your favorite trackers, you can have this right now, but no one can offer it out of the box because the content owners don't want them to do it, and our law allows the content owner to dictate that.

> Can't happen legally until copyright law is modified.

Then someone had better make an illegal application that does all this in a very attractive & easy-to-use way, because that seems to be the only way to get the companies off their asses and in action.

As I noted, there are plugins that make this very smooth from XBMC/Boxee. The chilling effects of copyright litigation prevent any real polish going into an out-of-the-box product, at least in America. Maybe another group of Swedes with the fortitude of The Pirate Bay's founders will crop up some time and take this on.

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