TV listings data provider Zap2it to get bulletproofed... -
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Published on: 7/17/2007
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"Originally, we intended it to support the open source community to keep them from scraping the site," said Andy Heinz, executive director of Tribune Media Services.Heinz said the data was strictly for personal use; for hobbyists making online personal video recording setups such as Isaac Richards' MythTV.
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"We found companies producing devices to compete with TiVo and selling them," Heinz said, declining to name specific violators.
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Heinz said Tribune planned to "reinvest in bulletproofing" the Labs site."We'll continue to work with the open source folks," he said."it's the offenders we wanted to bring to the table."Heinz said "some sort of arrangement with the open source community" would be announced within two or three weeks.