Re: Changes to Atlas access

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Nick Morrott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7 June 2016 at 04:42, Robert Eden <[email protected]> wrote:
....
>> Wow... most  XMLTV users have been forbidden by the terms for two
>> years???  Anyone notice that?  Atlas could avoided a while lot of hassle
>> by letting us know!
>
> It is difficult to comprehend that there has been no mention of this
> until recently, and that explicit mention of "incompatible" PVR
> software has only *just* been mentioned.

I have no actual evidence, but I suspect this is the straw problem
(associated with a camel's back).

Just as zap2it labs was willing to provide personal guide data
in the US (even though it "competed" with their commercial
guide service) as long as the volume was low and only used
for personal open source products, eventually someones
decided to ignore licenses and to use the data in bulk (for
commercial-style activities), and zap2it was forced to stop it
for all(*).

Using the past adjustments in the terms of service simply covers
MB actions today, but if everyone "played by the fair use rules" the
looking the other way might likely have continued.

And this is why we can't have nice things.




(*) Yes, it is always more complex than simple summaries,
but the abuse was claimed to be real.

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