Not sure about that. IMDb has always (and still does) make their movie database available via a dump. But there are pretty severe restrictions on how you can us

Not sure about that. IMDb has always (and still does) make their movie database available via a dump. But there are pretty severe restrictions on how you can use that data. Basically personal use only. I've been downloading those dumps for years. Long before Amazon bought them. And their usage policy has always been incredibly restrictive. Now maybe if Amazon dodn't buy them IMDb would be more willing to sell that data somehow. But, they have always been very very stingy with it. So it's not just Amazon coming in and locking things down. (Shortly after Amazon bought IMDb, they retired their old whacky dump format and converted to CSV instead. Of which I am thankful.)