[mythtv-users] Re: OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[Jack Trout]

Well of course I wonder if this will spark a debate like those of the
tv studios and cable companies about avoiding advertising, if a person
uses a program like the original xmltv, just to grab the listing and
code them out from the raw html and it happens that the advertisements
arent whats kept they dont make money, but it was a free service to
begin with, so.. is it against copyright law to grab information from
sources without thier explicit permission, when they dont provide an
terms of service for regular web users?

I guess there main goal is to make money from thier site, and when
mythtv and other such projects that used mythtv were small the
bandwidth wasnt really noticable, now with floods of users it actually
takes a toll on thier site and the ability to use it, xmtv and other
such programs essentially circumvent any advertisement or branding of
thier site, so if a 3rd party is now distributing a program with a
version of xmltv being used with a front end not even mentioning
zap2it as the provider they loose even bigger than when we use it,
because the consumer using the product isnt even aware of the source
and they assume the source is from the manufacturer than the content
provider, this can hurt thier business model and just hurt the
feelings of the people who work hard to upkeep the content, and
company X benifets from that.