[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Craig Partin cpartin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 15:43:46 UTC 2007


On 6/20/07, James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
> This is from their forum, does not sound good for now:
>
> - Continued use of the service to support commercial products, in
> violation of the agreement.
> - Commercial products continued to grow despite previous appeals that
> this activity stop.
> - There are significant changes to the supporting data structure
> forthcoming and we could not devote resources to the continued upkeep
> and enhancements of the service.
> - Maintenance of the service is impacting our resource pool for other
> projects.
> - We sought alternative options but were unable to find a solution.
> - We recognize the hardship this creates for the user community. We are
> open to alternative solutions and would consider proposals that met the
> needs of the user community and our company.
> - We looked into options to turn this into a paid service however we do
> not have the infrastructure at this time.
>
> -Labs


If they are shutting off the service that they started to prevent
scraping; does that mean that they have a way to prevent scraping via
some other means?


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