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Don’t Hand Our TVs Over to Google
- dsr_ 10y agoA key sentence in this article is false. "It lacks access to providers’ proprietary programming information — what shows are available when." Two weeks forward information is available commercially via Tribune Media Services and probably a competitor or two. It's available for free for a shorter time period via each channel's data service. Outside the US, there are a variety of methods, many of which can be seen here: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV
- wmf 10y agoBut what are the license terms for that data? Perhaps a statutory license from the FCC would give Google more freedom to repurpose guide data (or not).