[mythtv-users] Zap2it - hoting zap's data on another server to lessen the load?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:42:56PM -0700, Steve Dorsey wrote:
>    Does it make sense for someone to hose Zap2it data on a private 
> server so that the MythTv load would not be absorbed by the Zap folks? 
> If this is feasible, I'd donate some or all of my domain to hosting the 
> data (It can't be THAT big!) - assuming the bandwidth isn't insanely 
> huge.
> 
>    What are the technical and legal constraints here? I definitely would 
> not want to violate copyrights.

This is one of the main things that TMS does *not* want people to so,
although I don't think it was specifically this that prompted the
recent email.  They want to know how many people are getting the data,
and have some control over the distribution.

If you are running multiple independent mythboxen in one household
(though I don't know why you would, except for development), I can't
see that they would be that hyped about *that*, but otherwise?  Naw.

Cheers,
-- jra
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