It's a mystery to me that nobody took that to court and claimed as the victim of an unfair contractual arrangement.
Also, good luck trying to get any of your personal information removed from it (eg I added my date and exact birthplace years ago in the mistaken belief that I could filter my own private/public data). Their attitude is that once you've given them a piece of data, they own it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#As_a_su...
*When I went to look up info on the Gracenote/Freedb controversy, I found it had been scrubbed from Wikipedia. Hmmn.