Lan Barnes wrote:
Last night I discovered that CDDB had morphed into Gracenote, evidently a
money-making site. I don't necessarily resent the money, but automating
access to Gracenote looks unpleasantly complex. (I used the output of
cdstatus --cddb before.)
Did the old CDDB project get split and is there still an open site with CD
data?
The 99% user-supplied CDDB DB was co-opted and made proprietary for very
vague and fuzzy reasons years ago. Lots of ugliness, especially with
Gracenote threatening to sue anyone+dog for using /their/ database. And
now Gracenote is pretty much a dirty word in FOSS circles. A precursor
to today's MAFIAA tactics.
I don't remember there being any real copyright infringement issues -
mostly just greed and "We can do it and we will, so sod off!" by the
Gracenote gang.
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