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It probably also violates IMDB's copyright.

I think if you downloaded the info BUT DIDN'T contribute  you should be okay.,.,

Now with all the info on the Invelos page you can at least sit and verify that infoagainst screen credits- make any corrections- and then submit., I don't see a problem with that. It could save you a lot of typing.

Quoting Rifter:

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I wouldn't even think about using it.

IMO, it's your loss. I have no problem using a tool like that to get a starting point when work on cast and crew.

Notice I said starting point, I would never even think of submitting the data as-is, I just don't want to type the whole thing from scratch, when the data is available in so many other places.

Quoting MHoefler:

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Please post all comments, questions, bugs, etc. on the Invelos DVD Profiler forum. I can not answer requests per email at the moment.

If you guys want to use this, that is up to you.  However, since IMDb prohibits screen scraping, you should not be using the Invelos forum as the support forum for this.  Create your own site and leave Invelos out of it.

That's a pity, because the utility works fine and it produces marvelous results! I think 30% of the profiles in the DB are incomplete, inaccurate or even are missing cast & crew totally. With a few mouse clicks I was able to get at least the most important cast and crew members listed or merge the already provided data with the missing rest.

Regarding IMDB: imho this is not "data scraping", because it's no robot that collects thousands of profiles to use them on another website or commercial application or something like that. It simply does what everybody does manually: writing off the cast and crew. The data must come from somewhere - you can not seriously ask from us to watch the end credits in slow motion to read and write off the credits?

Nobody can forbid me to copy and paste the name of actors and crew members - after all it's not patented information and the end result will be the same if I copy them or write them manually.

But ok, if nobody likes it, I'll use the utility alone. It saves hours of tedious work and prevents a lot of spelling errors, etc.!

Regards!

The problem is the architecture of DVD Profiler itself: it's plain stupid to have e.g. 28 versions of one movie in the database, each one with different cast and crew selections, because everybody spends more or less time entering the data.

Each movie should be exactly 1 time in the database, with complete cast and crew, verified by multiple contributors. Then, only different DVD versions should be entered in the database, but WITHOUT all the info about the movie again. Just the specific data about the DVD release (region, languages, edition, etc.) would have to added, nothing more. This would be a much better organization of the data and it would save much unneccessary work and confusion. Maybe v4.0?

In the meantime, I'll use my utility for myself and stop contributing (even if the profiles generated by my program are much more accurate and complete than many of others in the database).

Regards!

whatever people think individually, it's against the rules here.

Plain and simple.

Why do people try to make things harder than they are?