[mythtv] Obtaining TV Listing Data and also Gist.com Closing

[John Hurliman]

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 05:12, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:15:36AM -0700, John Hurliman wrote:
> > I believe what you're proposing is a data piracy network, exactly what 
> > Tribune fears. If the data is originally taken from zap2it.com or one of 
> > their clearinghouses and redistributed through another company or a 
> > grass-roots network/server, it's information theft. If you are proposing 
> > to pull listings out of the Guide+ or some over-the-air tv listings, 
> > please post the code to do it! Would kind of defeat the need to pull TV 
> > listings off the net :).
> 
> As I clearly said, I was proposing that the XDS/Guide+ data be collected
> and shared between clients. Not web scraping, not 'information theft'.
> 
> As for defeating the purpose of it all, not everyone gets XDS data for
> various reasons.
> 
> > 
> > John Hurliman

Please share your Guide+ parsing code with the rest of the world!