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I have to contrast IMDB with CDDB a.k.a. Gracenote. The CDDB guy is popularly held to have screwed over the contributions of thousands of dedicated users when t
by wallflower 16y ago
I have to contrast IMDB with CDDB a.k.a. Gracenote. The CDDB guy is popularly held to have screwed over the contributions of thousands of dedicated users when they made their crowd-sourced database proprietary and commercial. Some people I know obsessively catalogued their entire collections, in the spirit of community knowledge, sharing. You have to at least consider that this was Steven Scherf's plan from the beginning, from when it was one of the first, if not the first, popular crowd-sourced sites.
http://www.quora.com/How-did-CDDB-become-Gracenote http://www.quora.com/How-did-CDDB-become-Gracenote
- zandorg 16y agoI know the CDDB guy from an unrelated mailing list to do with binary translation - a hobby of his. When I asked him for business advice, he told me get a good lawyer. Good advice!
- cddbguy 16y agoI am that "CDDB guy" you refer to. Note that there were a number of us involved, and I can't tell you how far from our minds any of this was. Think what you like, but perhaps a little reading first: http://link.moonsoft.com/wired.html http://link.moonsoft.com/wired.html http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2006/11/72105?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listenin... And yes, most lawyers are sociopaths :), but they are a necessary evil sometimes.
- cddbguy 16y agoSorry, that last line was for @zandorg.