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  • OffbeatmammalOffbeatmammal@mastodon.social
    Oct 27, 2026, 10:56 PM

    @retrosponge @cazabon what sucks is IMDB is largely built on contributions already, and Amazon just monetize it... Including charging for their API now. There are some alternatives but mostly lack the completeness of IMDB so get less use (catch-22)

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  • Christmas Spongeretrosponge@kind.social
    Oct 27, 2026, 10:58 PM

    @Offbeatmammal @cazabon I am old enough to remember using the IMDB before they bought it. Back when I first got internet access in 1994 I had an IMDB client on my Amiga.

    Like everything else a big corporation buys, the enshitification is strong.

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  • OffbeatmammalOffbeatmammal@mastodon.social
    Oct 27, 2026, 11:03 PM

    @retrosponge @cazabon same! They left it alone for quite a while, but the enshittification seems to be snowballing across most of their stuff (Alexa makes me sad). I remember meetings with the IMDB folks (I worked in the Kindle building in Seattle and they were just across the road) and they seems like a good team back then, but I imagine long gone, along with their principles

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  • C.cazabon@mindly.social
    Oct 28, 2026, 1:57 AM

    @neontapir

    themoviedb.org ?

    Owned by Tivo, and they claim an irrevocable royalty-free all-permissions license to everything you contribute, including the right to sublicense it to anyone else. And also including the right to use it to train "AI" or license it to companies who will.

    So not much of an improvement there.

    > B. Your License to Us.
    > By making a Contribution to this Site, You grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive
    > [...] fully-paid, royalty-free [...], sublicensable (so that we can distribute Your Contributions
    > to third parties, regardless of whether through the Site, the Services, through our other
    > products, or through other sites or products offered by our affiliates), worldwide [...]
    > license to use, modify, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display,
    > reproduce, and distribute Your Contribution in connection with the Site, the Services, other
    > websites and businesses, or the promotion thereof in any media formats and through
    > any media channels now known or hereafter devised, including training or validating a
    > machine learning or artificial intelligence system using Your Contribution, or including
    > Your Contribution in a data set containing TMDB Content to another person or entity for
    > such training or validation.

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  • C.cazabon@mindly.social
    Oct 28, 2026, 2:08 AM

    @schm43cky

    TMDB is no better than IMDB; see my other reply about it, its owner, and their IP TOS.

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  • C.cazabon@mindly.social
    Oct 28, 2026, 2:45 AM

    @llanero24

    Letterboxd is, unless I very much misunderstand it, just another proprietary commercial service.

    They don't just claim a non-exclusive license to anything you add to their data - they claim absolute ownership of it, meaning you can't even use it in future without their permission.

    So they're no better than IMDB or TMDB, and quite possibly worse.

    I'm also not looking for "a social experience". I want a data reference for movies and TV shows, that's all. I don't expect a dictionary or encyclopedia to be a "social experience".

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  • ElGranjllanero24@social.mollejuo.com
    Oct 28, 2026, 6:14 PM

    @cazabon Fair enough. At the moment, Letterbox allows export (via CSV) of my movie viewing history. That's enough for me.

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