[mythtv-users] OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[Bill Chmura]

My personal thoughts are that either:

#1) Zap2It really does not know who is doing it, or does know the company but 
cannot track the individual users to enforce it.

#2) Is positioning themselves to start charging... citing this as why

#3) Microsoft  (I don't know why, but its always good to get them onto a blame 
list).

#4) Zap2It knows,  but its not clear cut enough in the legal documents to have 
a go at a lawsuit.  For example selling mythtv boxes (Just an example, I am 
not saying that its the reason or it would be wrong - its just an example - 
insert the product of your choice here).

And yes. I agree %100 that greed is a horrible thing.

On Monday 01 November 2004 02:25 pm, Eric Joe wrote:
> > Could be... although they don't make it a secret of saying that they use
> > Zap2It for the guide data.  In fact they say if there is a problem to
> > contact
> > them so they can either resolve the problem or contact zap2it themselves.
> > So....
> >
> > Either:
> > 1) They don't feel they are violating the zap2it agreement
> > 2) Are actually paying for it
> >
> > I dunno... we should definitely hunt down and burn someone as a witch (or
> > at
> > least flog)
>
> Well whatever the reason, whats happens if this particular company causes
> the MythTV community to lose their zap2it listings? I for one will be
> ticked. Its amazing how greed always manages to screw up a good thing.
>
> And in other thoughts, why did zap2it assume everyone knew who they were
> talking about? I had no clue.
>
>
> Eric

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Bill Chmura
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