Developers

[KennyJ]

Again, I'm not a lawyer... It seems at best it's a grey area. Hulu has not sued Boxee -- they've only tried to prevent it through technical, not legal means.

[supersecretuser]

My suggestion would be before you use anyone else's content, talk to your lawyers and the content owner.

[campbellwang]

"supersecretusername" wrote:
My suggestion would be before you use anyone else's content, talk to your lawyers and the content owner.

That seems like sound advice.

So have You (supersecretusername) and Nowhereman got permission from the content owners to stream or create channels from their content and collect donations for making their content available to users on the Roku Box?

This is what the user dnelms was asking.

supersecretusername
http://www.vidpoints.com/donate/

Archive Classic Movies
Drive-In Classics
Big-10 Sports Network
Earth-Touch HD
HubbleCast HD
LDS Podcasts
NBC News
TEDTalks
Terra
The Internet Archive

nowhereman
http://www.thenowhereman.com/roku/

Archive.org           
C-SPAN 
CBS
CNET.com           
CNN
ESPN
FOX News
GameTrailers.com
HBO
Various under K-12 channel
MLB.com
NASA
NBC
NPR
PBS
Various under Speed channel
The White House

[Zarraza]

I don't know much about how the ROKU box works, but is sounds like the underlying message about the development and donations is this.
the donatees are selling nothing more than a "app" of sorts that will read what is publicly available.

what is doing the "redistributing" as you call it is YOUR ROKU box that is using the software they developed.
(again, this is how i understand this to work)

Am I way off base? (I'm a new ROKU user that just got turned on last night)