Findmypast this Friday

[Ruskie]

Has anyone received any details about the FindMyPast offer for the next England match (Wednesday?)? Is it the same deal as last time?

[andycand]

Hi

Information re access tomorrow

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/world-cup.jsp

Andy

[Ruskie]

Thank you Andy. 

[downside]

I object to paying commercial organisations (especially non-British ones like Ancestry, etc.) for access to material that is in the public domain.

We have had discussed this point many times before on rootschat.  Although the records are in the public domain, the actual searchable index has to be manually created using lots of labour and that costs a lot of money and the company had to recoup that by charging subscribers.  Imagine searching for information but not having an index?  Where would you begin?

[Sloe Gin]

Be careful, they have sneaked in another condition:

On free access days you’ll need to make sure that no-one else has already logged in on your computer - we have restricted the free 90 minutes to one session per computer.

http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/

Could be a problem for people using library computers and the like.

[Ringoroses]

I think it was like that last week too - to stop naughty people registering/ logging in using different emails. As if anyone here would do such a thing. 

[Ruskie]

I think it was like that last week too - to stop naughty people registering/ logging in using different emails. As if anyone here would do such a thing. 

I wish I'd thought of doing that! 

[Sloe Gin]

I think it was like that last week too

I don't think it was stated anywhere.  That may account for some people having had problems.  Tough if there's only one computer in the house and both of you want to use it, huh.

[Just Kia]

Per computer? That would mean taking note of the MAC address of the machine being used to log on.
It would be much more likely that they are logging the ip address - which then doesn't actually restrict to "per computer", hubby and I could both have valid accounts and one of us would be unable to use our 90 minutes because we would come from the same ip address.
However, given that hubby and I have at least 8 computers between us, restricting to one 90 min session per comuter wouldn't really work either...

Moot point from me as I have a full sub (and just one account) anyway, just curious as to the technical details behind the "per computer" criteria.