[mythtv-users] Boxee/Hulu Round 2

[Robert Dyer]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Unless, of course, they're storing the information obtained from the RSS
> feed (i.e. keeping URI's/descriptions/... in a file or database on the Boxee
> system) or similar--which could well be a violation of the RSS feed's ToS
> (and/or direct violation of copyright, depending on what's stored).

What you just described is caching.  Every web browser (and I would
assume most non-browser based RSS reader) does this.

> So, has anyone ever seen the ToS for the RSS feed?  I can't find it, but
> would love to have a link.  And, to get Hulu RSS support into Myth, we'd
> definitely need to see the terms or have some explicit approval, so if you
> have a link, please let us know.

I would assume the RSS feed (http://www.hulu.com/feed) is covered by
the main site's ToU, since they are under the same domain
(http://www.hulu.com/terms).

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Robert Dyer
rdyer at iastate.edu