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Re:IMDB data by michaelcampbell on Sunday April 24, 2011 @11:18PM (#2480312)
I believe the CDDB/Gracenote issue was exactly this; cddb built a massive database of cd's from user input, sold out to another company, which promptly closed it up and made it commercial. My memory may be wrong here, however.
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Re:IMDB data by ra on Monday April 25, 2011 @01:38AM (#2480534)
Yep, that's pretty much what happened.

Only IMDB is now owned by Amazon. You would have hoped that they would be a little more community spirited with the data given it's origins.

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