MythTV changes.

[Colin McGregor]

--- Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 2007/6/22, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Part of what
> > caused Zap2it labs to offer data this way was the
> > impact that the screen scraping programs had on
> their
> > servers, so by dropping this service they may make
> > things worse...
> 
> When people first started using the scraper
> software, wouldn't it have
> been easier for them to just block the software
> instead of offering a
> data service?

Block it how? Change the web page layout every few
days would be about the only way (i.e.: change faster
than the scraper program can adapt...). The scraper
software could make itself look like just about any
web browser and play all sorts of games to get the
data off a website... :-) .

Colin McGregor
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