<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">kijuhty kijuhty</b> <<a href="mailto:kijuhty@gmail.com">kijuhty@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q"></span><br>The excuse that discussing screen scraping will "ruin it for the SD subscribers" is ridiculously lame. If *some* people start screen scraping that doesn't mean Tribune will cancel SD and thereby force everyone to screen scrape, and "ruining it" for the SD subscribers. Why would they? It would only make it worse! To the contrary, if people start screen scraping, it's going to make Tribune more likely to find a less expensive or less invasive alternative because they'll realize everyone didn't just roll over and give in to their demands and pay them whatever fee they asked. Personally I think that if people start screen scraping and it really is a problem for Tribune, they'll be more likely to make DD free again or find some other palatable alternative. After all, the whole reason they gave us DD for free was *because* of screen scraping. It worked before. Screen scraping equalled free epg data. And I still believe that if everyone hammered their servers with screen scrapers they'd go back again to free epg data since that solved the problem for them the last time, and this SD thing is really just testing the waters to see if the myth community will pay and not go back to scraping.
<br></blockquote></div><br>You seem to be under a misunderstanding about some things.<br><br>Tribune never took away DD. Tribune never took away anything. It's still there, and is in fact what SchedulesDirect uses.<br>
<br>zap2it labs used to do excactly what schedulesdirect now does. THEY are the ones who stopped. Tribune and Zap2It are two separate entities.<br><br>Tribune is not now selling something they used to give away for free. They always sold it. They still sell it to zap2it, but zap2it doesn't give it away anymore. They do have a new customer in schedulesdirect.
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