[mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)

[Damon Searle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of William Uther
> Sent: Saturday, 16 April 2005 6:30 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Australian TV grabber (tv_grab_au)
> 
> 
> On 16/04/2005, at 2:36 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> 
> > Blindly following various HOWTO's on myth installation lead me to
> > believe that the Nine MSN tv_grab_au in the forums was perhaps the only
> > one around that people were using... this may be quite far from the
> > truth!
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber
> > looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally
> > least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now?
> 
> I was using the D1 grabber until recently.  I don't think it is the
> least legally dodgy option.  Copyrightable materials are considered
> protected unless you have a license.  With no license, you cannot use
> the data.  People currently use the D1 data under an implied license
> because the data is available on the web.  In court, that implied
> license may only be worth the paper it is written on.
> 
> The Australian Community TV guide ( http://tvguide.org.au/ ) is much
> less legally dodgy.  The data there is licensed under the creative
> commons license.  I have a, very simple, grabber for that data here:
> 

How is it less "legally dodgy" if people read their TV guide and manually
enter in data, rather than downloading the data directly? I don't really see
the difference, other than one is a lot more trouble and error prone.

Damon