On Jan 06, Julian Mayer <jul...@corecode.at> wrote: > given you encouraging answer i hope to be able to make a beta > release in the next few days.
IMDbPY 4.4 will be out within the week: 4.3 contains a lot of problems, and in fact you're forced to use the SVN version, now. Maybe you can wait until it's out. > anyway, this sounds a bit like "using IMDbPY or distributing a app > that uses IMDbPY to fetch movie information is illegal, but they > won't come after you until you make a profit out of it". No, it's not: as you have said, you're just distributing/using some code, moreover a code that is far from being specifically tailored to violate some property (if I just wanted to grab the whole content of IMDb web server, I'd never use IMDbPY: too slow and too much overhead). But again: I'm not a lawyer and the law in USA have taken a (not-so-)funny road since some time, now. > > Those information are _their_ property, and you must not profit > > from them. For no reason and in no way. > it's a bit disturbing that the data is their property although most > of it has been entered by users, akin to the gracenote thing. There are other sources of information about movies out there, even if none so complete. > > This means no reselling (of the data or of a service based on > > that data) and no republishing under no circumstances [2]. > yeah i think so much is obvious. You won't believe the number of people for who this is not. :-) > right. therefore i find it a bit weird that they explicitly forbid > extracting data from their webpage and on the other hand they put > those useless text database online. I think the plain text data files are a legacy of the time the database was non-profit and community-driven. > the website lists 15.000 now. which is ridiculous, there surely is > demand for apps which can fetch movie info from imdb for personal > usage. that is a scenario they don't seem to anticipate. I suppose they don't really care - and I guess/hope they have made their estimations. It probably makes more sense to aim to the streaming of movies; after all the client-side computing is dead, isn't it? We're all supposed to be living in the cloud within a few years! (no, I don't buy it, but everyone seems to like the idea so much...) Bye, -- Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [GPG KeyID: 0x465BFD47] http://www.mimante.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Imdbpy-help mailing list Imdbpy-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/imdbpy-help
