<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">kijuhty kijuhty</b> <<a href="mailto:kijuhty@gmail.com">kijuhty@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span class="q">>> due to NON-MYTH users using the data for commercial purposes.<br><br></span>Which non-myth users? I've heard that said many times, but nobody's ever said *what* non-myth software was using dd.
<br><br>Try to think about this like a rational adult. Tribune did *NOT* start DD because they were charitable and wanted to help the foss community. They started DD because it was costing them more money to deal with scrapers than to just give the data for free. That is even more true now since the Myth community is bigger now than it was 5 years ago. If it was cheaper to deal with scrapers than to give DD for free, they wouldn't have created DD. So, when Tribune threated to "terminate" DD, it the community responded "ok, we'll go back to scraping because we won't pay", then Tribune would have had to go back to giving DD for free, because they already know it's cheaper to do that than to deal with the scrapers.
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<div>You do know that mythtv is not the only PVR software around, right?</div>
<div>And you also know that people were selling preconfigured/managed myth boxes ALL using generated/centrally managed DD accounts, right?</div>
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<div>Tribune would have done the same that yahoo7 did here in Australia and move to an almost-impossible-to-parse output if people had continued scraping, and will do so if people scrape in the future. The easiest thing they could do is to generate images for the listings.
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