[MythDora] Zap2it is shutting down Sept. 1

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:46:55AM -0400, gchris wrote:
> Dennis Hand wrote:
> > Well there goes the neighborhood :-(
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > On 6/20/07, gchris <gchris at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> Here's some ugly news!
> >> http://labs.zap2it.com/
> >>
> >> Chris
> 
> It's a big bump in the road and I'd bet that the MPAA helped put it 
> there but there are alternatives.
> 
> Two months is not much time for the thousands of legal users to recover 
> so the first effort should be an organized appeal for more time.
> 
> My new Panny flat panel has TV Guide built in and it is scraping this 
> same data off the air somewhere.  Someone knows how it's done and if a 
> TV set can do it so can MythTV.
> 
> This might be a business opportunity for someone to take out a 
> commercial license to receive the data and then re-distribute it to 
> MythTV users for $1 or $2 per month.
> 
> There is always web scraping.  The Australians have been doing that for 
> years.

There was a time before zap2it where the US was doing the same. :=)
Perhaps xmltv still has some working non-dd modules, if not, I'm sure
there will be some within a short time.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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