[mythtv-users] OT: Zap2it Labs Email

[Aaron Stewart]

If I might chime in for a moment..

It's possible that a company or two is proxying the Zap2it listings 
through their own site, such that their client hits a non-zap2it url 
that returns cached data.  At which point, Zap2it would have no clue as 
to whether the request is abusing their terms of use, since it simply 
looks like regular usage.

I sincerely doubt that they'll charge in the long term.. Coming from a 
web-services background, it would be against the "commoditization of 
data" that have made WS's so prevalent.

Christopher Flynn wrote:

>On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:24:08 -0500, Bill Chmura <bill at explosivo.com> wrote:
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>>My personal thoughts are that either:
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>>#1) Zap2It really does not know who is doing it, or does know the company but
>>cannot track the individual users to enforce it.
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>If this were the case, how would they know that someone is abusing it? 
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>>#2) Is positioning themselves to start charging... citing this as why
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>I hope this isn't the case and I kindof doubt it mainly because they
>put such an emphasis on it being a free service.
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>>#3) Microsoft  (I don't know why, but its always good to get them onto a blame
>>list).
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>Of course, I'm sure they are behind it. They abuse the service so that
>mythtv users are without a program guide and try to force us to use
>their Media Center Edition version of windows! Hehe... alway have to
>at least try to pin it on Microsoft.
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>>#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).
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>I think this is the most plausable conclusion. However if someone is
>selling it and then the individual users is then required to go and
>get a zap2it account then it should be ok. It would be if someone was
>selling it with their own zap2it subscription on several machines that
>this would become an issue. If this is the case, zap2it should be able
>to just cut off that account from downloading information.
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>I certainly hope it doesn't go away... I love the service.
>-Chris
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