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

[Michael J. Lynch]

I would guess their major income source is printed guides for satallite 
TV.  If you are
a DishNetwork customer and subscribe to the printed guide, look at the 
binding, it says
"zap2it.com".


Bill Chmura wrote:

>Just the fact that they sent out this letter makes me doubt that Zap2It really 
>knows who is violating it.  If there are hardware and software packages using 
>it against the policy they should do like every other entity does and sue 
>someone.  Suing a company would be easier (and more lucrative) than going 
>after people. 
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>This is the conspiricy portion of me talking, but  I really think this is the 
>start of a campaign to become a fee based service.   It makes enough sense to 
>get a lot of people using the service than change over.  How much money could 
>they be making off the statistics we provide when we do the questionairre to 
>re-up the service every few months?   They've got to pay for themselves 
>somehow.   It would not bother me as long as it was reasonable...   
>
>Of course the data and the service are theirs to do with as they see fit.  If 
>they want to yank free support then thats up to them.  If they think selling 
>Mythtv boxes is violating their rules then its also up to them.  You could 
>hash it out till the cows come home - but in the end you don't really have a 
>contract with them anyway.
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>On Friday 29 October 2004 05:52 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
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>>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:42:34PM -0700, Geoff Scott wrote:
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>>>Received from Zap2it Labs today.
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>>[...]
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>>I imagine a lot of us got that.
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>>>Well, they may know who the violators are, but I don't.
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>>I was wondering if anybody here knew who/what upset TMS?
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>>>And since I'm not smart enough to know who the violators are, I'm
>>>probably not smart enough to form my own opinion about this letter.
>>>Do I agree with Zap2it and demand some heads be place on some very
>>>large pikes, or do I start scanning for black helicopters and run
>>>around yelling that Zap2it will start charging us because of the
>>>"violators"?
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>>I'm not sure if either one will be all that useful.
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Michael J. Lynch

What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown