[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 6/25/07, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> Here's a legal question: Suppose for the sake of argument that we had the
> description data in an "open source" form. Would it be legal to screen-scrape
> a TV station's Web site, zap2it.com, or whatever, for schedule data, link the
> two types of data, and publish the results (via Usenet, P2P networks, a Web
> site, or whatever)? If so, we could plan for a solution along those lines --

I thought XMLTV already worked that way a few years ago.  You used to
be able to configure it to use one of several sites for scraping.