Hello all, Sorry for the off-topic post, but I thought it would be the sort of thing that interests people like us. :-)
http://www.terryburton.co.uk/blog/2007/05/sign-my-petition.html http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Free-TV-listings/ Currently anyone publishing television listings in the UK is required by law under Schedule 17 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 to pay a royalty, which BDS (Broadcasting Data Services) collects on behalf of the broadcasters. By releasing television schedule details into the public domain many web sites will be able to integrate this information into their content, creating a tighter convergence between the web and television which will benefit advertisers, broadcasters, webmasters and importantly, the consuming public. And my motivation for creating it is explained in this extract from a mailing list post: There are several voluntary projects that wish to combine a database of extensive program information with an XML feed of the non-free official channel listings to create an uberfeed that can be used to schedule recordings, etc. Unfortunately they are prohibited from doing so. _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
