[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jun 20 20:35:34 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:27:51PM -0400, ryan patterson wrote:
>    I think people are too caught up in the unauthorized use of the
>    zap2it data. Reading between the lines of the zap2it posting,
>    I think the main reason behind this is TMS is going to change
>    the backend database structure and they don't want to have to
>    pay somebody to rewrite the datadirect client that accesses the
>    database. The unauthorized use by commercial entities ( i.e. a
>    college student sells a few premade mythtv systems for extra money)
>    can not be significant. But it makes for a nice scapegoat.

I like that answer even better.

Of course, they'd probably get 4 or 5 volunteers from here to do it in
their spare time (or subsidized by the base) who are better DB
programmers than the people they already pay, but...

Cheers,
-- jra
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