[mythtv] mythmovie grabber issue (ToS)
xavier hervy
xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Wed Jan 14 18:24:57 UTC 2009
Josh Lefler wrote:
> MythMovies shells out to the grabber as an external program, then
> receives back XML. It would be possible to write a sort of "MetaGrabber"
> that shells out to various other grabbers then combines the results into
> one XML block to be returned to MythMovies.
>
That is not the point
> I'm not necessarily advocating this approach and wouldn't have a problem
> with the idea of multiple grabbers in MythMovies itself, but its an
> option to consider.
>
It is about legal issue not feasibility.
> If someone did implement multiple grabbers in MythMovies itself, they
> would need to consider what to do with multiple listings for a given
> theater or movie in the various sources - especially if these entries
> have conflicting data.
>
>
No conflict possible, on theater is own by only one company or franchise
> Josh Lefler
>
You are missing the point here.
Technically it is far better/easier to have only one source will all the
data. But in practice it can be illegal.
The idea is to create a grabber for each company/franchise which own
theaters.
For example a grabber for Cineworld would get the data from
http://www.cineworld.co.uk/ and a grabber for Empire Cinema would get
its data from http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk.
By definition cineworld website would not display Empire Cinema Theaters
show time information as they don't really their customer to go to a
concurrent company.
So having twice the same theater from different sources should not be
possible and then not a problem .
Nobody would really prefer to write a grabber for each company, but it
might probably a way to avoid the google ToS problem (or other sources).
It does basicly means that mythmovie would freely advertises the
theaters's show times of each franchise.
If I was Cineworld or Empire Cinema, why would I forbid my potential
customer to scrap my page in order to display in a more accessible
manner my show times information?
My question is:
Would this approach solve the ToS problem ?
(I am mainly talking to the dev with commit right to svn)
Regards,
Xavier
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