Ok the legalities of these things are all very interesting and stuff but it still leaves us in a conundrum. I personally think trying to grab from a website is a waste of time. The data isn't very feature full anyway and the problems of trying to maintain a working grabber creates a reliance on programming folk to put in their time to maintain it. I have thought about distributed and proxied grabbing but flagged it... i'm now pretty firm on community built tv listings, which I believe is technically legal.

So my question is, do I continue with my tvschedule site and if so do I use existing online or satelite listings?

If I proceed with the site it is going to raise the profile of our activities, no doubt about it. If I use existing sources (ie web/satelite) of data then it is highly questionable legally so it's a double whammy. If I don't and the guide data is still coming from web/satellite then is the community going to put their backing behind it? If they don't we're left with a tvschedule site that isn't going to be useful and possible increased profile of other guide data grabbing activities.

thoughts people...