[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 22:59:12 UTC 2007


On 6/20/07, Srikant Sharma <srikant.sharma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Disclaimer: I am very new to mythtv so just disregard this mail if it does
> not make sense.
>
> I gather that the main complaint of zap2it is the abuse of their
> system/facility by users.
> They apparently do not have problem is sharing the listings with end-users
> like us, so far.
>
> Is it possible for us (mythtv-users) to convince them to share the data
> with a very limited
> number of users?  We users can later distribute.propagate the data using
> some peer-to-peer
> protocol. This will alleviate the load on their servers and we can still
> manage to get the listings.
>
> I am sure mythtv users will not mind to share the listings with neighbors,
> if there is some way to
> get them an distribute them.
>
> --
> Srikant
>
>


Not a bad idea.  Perhaps Myth could somehow proxy the listings and
then distribute to the user base.  Now weither that's peer-to-peer or
some  client-server method, it would still require some form of
network bandwidth considerations.

Matt


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