[mythtv-users] Netflix coming to MythTV native - no more wine/windows?

[Joseph Fry]

>
> > What would be particularly nice would be creating a plugin that would
> parse
> > the HTML on the netflix site .....
>
> Of course, this violates the TOS (scrapping explicitly
> mentioned) of the NetFlix site.
>

Ahh... but is writing your own web browser considered scraping?  All we
would be doing is what any web browser does, downloads a bit of HTML and
presenting it to the user.  If I use a text based browser, am I scraping
because I am not seeing their images.  If I run scripts on my browser to
hide/manipulate the content displayed, am I scraping?

And NetFlix is in progress to removing the developer API
> functionality that provided a previously supported method
> (to be shut down November 2014) for those with a
> developer account.


The API would have been nice, then we could simply create a grabber for
netflix.


> So, like most other platforms, one is likely at best to
> see a "NetFlix" button that places one into the NetFlix
> experience.


Perhaps, we can hope that NetFlix won't get too controlling... we pay for
the content, not for their interface.  If we are turned off by the
interface and have no way to use something different, they may start to
lose people.


> But you are free to dream of a different world, where
> content providers do not control the horizontal, and
> do not control the vertical.....


I do.
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