Personally I would find built-in links in game headers quite annoying, so annoying indeed that I doubt that I would keep using SCID. Further, TWIC is not the ultimate source of the games listed there, nor does it enjoy any sort of rights to these games. Chess games are not subject to copyright.
It's important to note that the TWIC download page is freely exposed to anyone who wants to write a python, perl or ruby script to download its contents, and never look at its ads. It's a rather safe bet, also, that both Chess Assistant and ChessBase employ either built-in network procedures to download from TWIC or scripts run in their respective home offices where they assemble their own libraries of games. None of this has caused the demise of TWIC. If TWIC really regarded automated downloads as a threat, they would put a captcha between the internet and their download page, which they haven't done. So I don't think this project should concern itself at all with the notion that a built-in network procedure in Scid would hurt TWIC. It is perhaps worth pointing out that if TWIC for some reason stopped freely publishing games, someone else would take it up (which is, I suspect, why TWIC employs no captcha on its download page). TWIC doesn't own this data. Best, Mark Morss On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:15 -0500, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > > Wouldn't it make more sense if - for games downloaded from TWIC (and > > other similar sites) - game information presented in Scid simply > > contained clickable link (maybe just in Source tag)? > > Brilliant! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex > infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to > virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual > desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure > costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
