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by tdhoot 2434 days ago
Only for personal and non-commercial use, which is probably not what startups need.
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process it on your personal computer and use the output in your startup
That intermediate step doesn't get around the license.
it depends
Why would they have to make it available to startups in an easily accessible manner?
IMDB was originally crowdsourced, wasn't it?
So, have the data available. But I see no reason why they should have to go out of their way to change their site to make it easy for someone to get it.
It started as lists and shell scripts to query them in the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.