Darrell's hit the nail on the head. There are an awful lot of you hitting our servers every day, and, quite frankly, putting load on the databases for data you'll never use. (Unless you're someone who watches every channel every hour of every day for the next fourteen.)
We're open to people doing cool things with our data so long as we can put some parameters around their use. When he started publishing it on the web, though, that crossed a line. (Our license agreement is not, however, as it's described on the XMLTV message board, but then again, what can you believe on a message board?)
We're actually in the final stages of building something to address both the community and our needs. I can't say it'll be free, but it will be fair to both of us, reliable, and legal. (You wouldn't believe what it costs us to collect and verify 11,000 channels worth of television schedules.)
Drop me a line (my username above (at) tribune.com) if you're interested in beta testing it.
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Darrell's hit the nail on the head. There are an awful lot of you hitting our servers every day, and, quite frankly, putting load on the databases for data you'll never use. (Unless you're someone who watches every channel every hour of every day for the next fourteen.)
We're open to people doing cool things with our data so long as we can put some parameters around their use. When he started publishing it on the web, though, that crossed a line. (Our license agreement is not, however, as it's described on the XMLTV message board, but then again, what can you believe on a message board?)
We're actually in the final stages of building something to address both the community and our needs. I can't say it'll be free, but it will be fair to both of us, reliable, and legal. (You wouldn't believe what it costs us to collect and verify 11,000 channels worth of television schedules.)
Drop me a line (my username above (at) tribune.com) if you're interested in beta testing it.