[mythtvnz] EPG a possible alternative

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
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> On 23 October 2014 at 2:30:06 pm, Tim Lockyer (drtimlockyer at gmail.com(mailto:drtimlockyer at gmail.com)) wrote:
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>> A couple years ago, some kind people made paid EPG information available along with some very helpful user guides on installation. This was really good for new people to MythTV, plus it made life easier for all. But unfortunately the company that we pay a monthly subscription to decided that it would stop this happening.
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>> As a result alternatives were found. But such alternatives are not the easiest of things to install and get running especially for people new to MythTV. It took me quite a lot of effort to get EPGSnoop up and running.
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>> Going forward a couple of years and there is BitTorrent Sync. My understanding is that if read only is used, the data is synced but there is no way of tracing where the data is coming from. And as a result the EPG data is completely anonymous.
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>> My thought is – is this a EPG delivery method worth considering and would there be any support?
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> Technically? There are people on this list who could build an awesome implementation of what you suggest in at least six different programming languages. However, I would suspect the discussion to be had around this would be all the legal problems.
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> If only there was a lawyer on the list who could provide an expert opinion…

Well IAAL but not an expert in this field.

There is plenty of law that holds that EPG data is not the subject of
copyright, as it is simply a compilation of facts. There is such law
in Oz, which is probably the closest to us jurisprudentially. Of
course no one wants a fight with Sky to establish this in NZ law. See
http://techliberty.org.nz/skys-takedown-notices/

However the EPG data supplied throuth tv_grab_nz-py does not cover Sky
channels. It is good, it works. It s pretty reliable.

If it ain't broke, why fix it.

I guess you could make an xmltv compatible guide fetcher based on
bittorrent, but as I said, if it ain't broke... (and anyway, wouldn't
someone have to make a new torrent and seed it every day for that to
be effective).




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