On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Hulse</b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:11:18PM -0700, kijuhty kijuhty wrote:<br>> >> guide data owner getting upset with people abusing their service and<br>> nearly terminating it completely.<br>><br>> That's not the impression I got at all. Tribune was fishing for a way to
<br>> get Myth users to pay for the epg data. After they announced they were<br><br> I dunno. I don't think the amount of money involved her is of<br>much interest to Tribune. I suspect that they are more concerned about
<br>loss of revenue from commercial customers.<br><br>> going to "terminate it", they started soliciting for a model that would<br>> allow them to charge Myth's users. If they really wanted to terminate it,
<br><br> I think here they were more interested in the community organizing<br>the solution and policing things. They don't view the whole venture as worth<br>their effort. If the policing and administration is free then they are willing
<br>to allow consumer users. Otherwise, it seems that they would rather not bother.<br><br>> they would terminated it--not started fishing for money from Myth's users.<br>> If the Myth community had said 'no' we won't pay for it, my guess is Tribune
<br>> would have gone back to giving it for free because it would have cost a lot<br>> more to work around scrapers and try to handle the impact that it has on<br>> their advertising model than to just continue to give it for free. But
<br>> since the Myth developers offered to help them monetize it, of course<br>> Tribune was happy with the outcome.</blockquote><div><br>Absolutely! All these conspiracy theory loving folks need to put things in perspective. Tribune is _HUGE_. How much money a year can they get from selling their listings to SD? $100K for 5000 users?. That is pocket change. They can barely hire a decent developer for that money to maintain the feeds.
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