Support for www.theposterdb.com ?

[roaku 842]

They still don't seem very inviting of 3rd party access:

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Users may not, without express prior written permission, do any of the following while accessing or using the Services or Site:

4. access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by TPDb (and only pursuant to those terms and conditions);

5. scrape the Services, and particularly scrape User Content from the Services;

 

https://theposterdb.com/terms

[Suliamu 36]

+1 

The content there is really exceptional @N3rdP1um23. 

But I am really wondering why you charge the uploaders money.
Is this business working that way? I don't see the appeal to upload my content somewhere and pay for it. 
One can upload custom posters at couple places for free. 
What do the artist get in return? I am a bit confused. 
In my opinion it would be way better to charge downloaders money.
For example for API-Access, as requested here in this thread.  
I am sure there is folks who would pay a little for access to this.  
 

Edited October 30, 2024 by Suliamu

[JasonNalley 37]

On 10/30/2024 at 4:22 AM, Suliamu said:

+1 

The content there is really exceptional @N3rdP1um23. 

But I am really wondering why you charge the uploaders money.
Is this business working that way? I don't see the appeal to upload my content somewhere and pay for it. 
One can upload custom posters at couple places for free. 
What do the artist get in return? I am a bit confused. 
In my opinion it would be way better to charge downloaders money.
For example for API-Access, as requested here in this thread.  
I am sure there is folks who would pay a little for access to this.  
 

I proposed this idea to them over a year (heck maybe even over 2-3 years ago) and it fell on deaf ears... Charging a creator to upload their creations, which is what draws the traffic to their site is kind of crazy...  Totally backwards way of doing business...  I've been using photoshop for over 30 years, I have movie posters, DVD Covers, and Disc Images that I've created over the years that are top quality, but because they want to charge me to share my work, I don't... 

[bmg6 0]

They are providing the distribution and storage. Probably some of content creators want to share their work but do not want to deal all of the "back-end hassles" (Hosting Costs, Storage Costs, etc). They see it as cheap way to get the content published and only deal with Content Creation.