[mythtvnz] [Fwd: Sky Television: Infringement of rights]

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

James Gray wrote:
>> I wonder what it would cost to buy the rights to the EPG data?..  ie
>> what if we were to play their game?
>>
> 
> http://www.tv3.co.nz/ContactUs/FAQs/tabid/62/articleID/71/Default.aspx
> 
> $2000 per month... and I think that's just for TV3. I posed a
> tentative question to this list a while back to see who would be
> likely to pay, say, $15-$20 per month to access a licensed and quality
> checked XMLTV feed, and mostly got the "well we can get this for free"
> response

So that would be 100 people paying $20 each month.  Plus the cost of 
someone's time to check and correct their usual errors.

Not financially viable in my opinion.


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