[mythtv-users] Re: OT: Zap2it Labs Email
Michael J. Lynch
mlynch at gcom.com
Mon Nov 1 12:47:26 UTC 2004
I would guess their major income source is printed guides for satallite
TV. If you are
a DishNetwork customer and subscribe to the printed guide, look at the
binding, it says
"zap2it.com".
Bill Chmura wrote:
>Just the fact that they sent out this letter makes me doubt that Zap2It really
>knows who is violating it. If there are hardware and software packages using
>it against the policy they should do like every other entity does and sue
>someone. Suing a company would be easier (and more lucrative) than going
>after people.
>
>This is the conspiricy portion of me talking, but I really think this is the
>start of a campaign to become a fee based service. It makes enough sense to
>get a lot of people using the service than change over. How much money could
>they be making off the statistics we provide when we do the questionairre to
>re-up the service every few months? They've got to pay for themselves
>somehow. It would not bother me as long as it was reasonable...
>
>Of course the data and the service are theirs to do with as they see fit. If
>they want to yank free support then thats up to them. If they think selling
>Mythtv boxes is violating their rules then its also up to them. You could
>hash it out till the cows come home - but in the end you don't really have a
>contract with them anyway.
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>On Friday 29 October 2004 05:52 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
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>>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:42:34PM -0700, Geoff Scott wrote:
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>>>Received from Zap2it Labs today.
>>>
>>>
>>[...]
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>>I imagine a lot of us got that.
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>>>Well, they may know who the violators are, but I don't.
>>>
>>>
>>I was wondering if anybody here knew who/what upset TMS?
>>
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>>>And since I'm not smart enough to know who the violators are, I'm
>>>probably not smart enough to form my own opinion about this letter.
>>>Do I agree with Zap2it and demand some heads be place on some very
>>>large pikes, or do I start scanning for black helicopters and run
>>>around yelling that Zap2it will start charging us because of the
>>>"violators"?
>>>
>>>
>>I'm not sure if either one will be all that useful.
>>
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Michael J. Lynch
What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown
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