[dudleypoopright]

This is the problem with modern web companies:

Protocols, not companies. There should be a Netflix protocol that any business could host. There should be a Twitter protocol so anyone could set up a Twitter server.

[klapinat0r]

The protocol is hardly the issue with setting up your own movie-search db - it's data.

I guess Freebase might be a way to go, once you've resolved the initial dataset with wikipedia, update incrimentally with just the changes.

Or, you know, you have to license the material from somewhere.