[mythtv] wanted: developers that use mythfilldatabase

Hans Dingemans jpldingemans at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 14:40:24 UTC 2020


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:44 AM Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 02/09/2020 07:57 AM, Hans Dingemans wrote:
> >
> > I am using zap2xml for US channels
>
> FWIW, zap2xml is in violation of Zap2It's Terms of Use and copyright.
> See https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/612021#612021 . Mentioning this,
> as in the linked post since, due to the program's author's deception,
> most users have no idea that using that program is in violation of the
> ToU/copyright.
>
> Mike
>

Mike, I looked into this, and tvguide.com indeed has a policy that forbids
you to download their information and store it in a database. But zap2it.com
does not seem to have an (active) terms of use policy; that is, I couldn't
find it, and neither could Google.

What is the source of your information?

Hans.
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