MythTV takes a HUGE hit.

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 20, 2007, at 19:22, Ted Roche wrote:

> Thomas Charron wrote:
>> http://labs.zap2it.com/ztvws/ztvws_login/1,1059,TMS01-1,00.html
>>
>> "For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to
>> hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of
>> 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs
>> was at risk because of certain growing misuses of the Zap2it Labs
>> data. Unfortunately this misuse has continued and grown. These
>> misuses, combined with other business factors have led to the  
>> decision
>> to discontinue Zap2it Labs effective September 1, 2007. "
>
> Nice that they gave 70+ days notice so that people can come up with
> work-arounds. We can look at screen-scraping sites with the schedules,
> look for alternative sources, work up some new hacks.
>
> Maybe this will be the motivation to get www.xmltv.org rolling again.

Honestly, not a HUGE hit. Unfortunate, yes, but we survived just fine  
for quite a while before the datadirect service existed. Work is  
already underway on a few replacement scenarios.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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