<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17/03/2010, at 7:25 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Steve Hodge wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, <<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org">criggie@criggie.dyndns.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org">mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org</a>>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I'd guess that Sky pays a fee to the copyright holder via the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> distributor chain for access to the program/season, and part of that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> will cover "supply and permission to use the descriptions etc"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> So Sky got sucked into paying for that info themselves.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not only that, it's also a revenue stream for them since they sell<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SkyWatch. Hardly surprising that they'd want to protect that revenue.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It does seem backward to me though as the EPG/SkyWatch is simply an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">enabler for their core business which is getting people to watch TV. The<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">harder you make it for someone to find out about programs and scheduling<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the less TV they will watch and the less likely they are to continue to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">subscribe. It's similar to the movie studios that try to make it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">difficult for people to download movie trailers. WTH would you want to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">make it difficult for people to watch an advertisement for your stuff?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Steve<br></blockquote><br>I wonder what it would cost to buy the rights to the EPG data?.. ie<br>what if we were to play their game?<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Things might have changed but when I tried 3 years ago they wouldn't sell it if you were going to publish it electronically.</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></span>
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