Djkxml problems?

[peter_h]

Regarding the "allegedly illegal" screen-scraping: Is there anything illegal about a program that looks for files containing tv listings that are already on the user's computer (no internet connection involved), and then reformats it in XML format? Surely not? So isn't the answer for the EPG generator program to search the browser cache for an .html source of TV listings?

And then if the user happens to setup a batch file that automatically directs the browser to various websites, immediately before running the "browser cache scraper" program, surely that's unrelated... legally?

Any informed legal opinions on this scenario?

[time_lord]

Hey Pete, I have no legal knowledge, but surely what you do with it once it's on your PC surely has nothing to do with anyone else? (And how would they know?)
I mean, how you use publicly available info is always going to be a grey area surely? A bit like websites saying you are using them fraudulently if your browser has adblock installed and are blocking the ads, because you are not looking at the ads. Well what happens when I choose not to look at the ads because of brightly flashing graphics, so I move the RHS of the browser off-screen? Is that fraudulent use?

Errrr.... anyway, I digress! ;-) I too have been using EPG Collector and it's great, everything I wanted and only 25 seconds to update. I only use DVB-T (almost direct line-of-sight of KauKau) and it's spot-on.