IMDb orders imdbAPI to shut down or else

Re:IMDb orders imdbAPI to shut down or else by jsilence on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @03:45AM (#4354406)

This hurts regarding the history of IMDB which had large portions contributed by volunteers in the early days:

"Users were invited to contribute data which they may have collected and verified, on a volunteer basis, which greatly increased the amount and types of data to be stored or for which sections needed to be added. As the site thereby grew in content exponentially," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imdb#History_before_website

So IMDB is a community effort that has been commercialized.

Would be nice if the current 'owners' would respect the history of their own site and play nice with another community effort in the same field.

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Re:IMDb orders imdbAPI to shut down or else by mbitca on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @07:36AM (#4355001)

While I agree they don't particularly play nice with the community, they do still let people download the raw data for non-commercial use at least. Not that they promote that fact much. http://www.imdb.com/interfaces/

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