Cover Fetching Data Source

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Edward Hades <edward.hades at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Well the clause says "without prior written consent". Considering that
we have excellent relations with Last.fm (mxcl), it might be possible
to get an exception for Amarok. Let's just poke mxcl about it.

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org