[mythtv-users] New Australian XMLTV grabber

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 19/11/2004, at 12:47 PM, Brian May wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> hmmm... not sure how well this would work in practise, somebody
> recently posted a message to aus.rail saying he had a website with
> train time tables posted from around the world. He had to take it
> off-line, because he was accused of infringing copyright by the owners
> (weird; I thought it would be like free advertising). I would have
> this would be a similar situation.

Just because you're accused of something doesn't make you guilty of it.

> The question the MythTV people are asking is whether it is considered
> unfair trading or not for the TV stations to sell TV guides to various
> websites, but not to end consumers. The other question is whether or
> not ACCC can help.
>
> I have a suspicion the answer to both questions is probably no, as I
> think when selling a license you have the right to decide who to sell
> or not sell the licence to.

I agree with you.

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