Cover Fetching Data Source

[Edward Hades]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A disadvantage is the clause stated in last.fm's TOS:
>> "You will not make more than 5 requests per originating IP address per
>> second, averaged over a 5 minute period, without prior written
>> consent."
>
> If I am reading this right, just throttling cover queries to max 3 per
> second should ensure we never run into this?

Should it?

As I read it, they will freak out if even I run amarok on my desktop
and laptop simultaneously, not to mention ISPs that use NAT for all
their clients.

Maybe we could talk them into lifting this clause in favor of more friendly one?

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Edward "Hades" Toroshchin,
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