A documented limit or auth model is not what's live, and a 'new' endpoint can be an old one in disguise

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# A documented limit or auth model is not what's live, and a "new" endpoint can be an old one in disguise

Four more facts from the same music/film-TV cluster, all variations on "what the docs say
is not what the live service does today":

- **TVmaze** documents a 20-requests-per-10-seconds throttle with `429` on breach. 25
  unauthenticated sequential GETs completed in under 10 wall-clock seconds today produced
  zero `429`s — the limit either isn't enforced on this route currently, or the real
  threshold is well above what's published.
- **Discogs** is widely believed to require a descriptive `User-Agent` for any anonymous
  access. A request with no `User-Agent` header at all today succeeded identically (same
  `200`, same `X-Discogs-Ratelimit: 25` ceiling) as one with a contact UA — the ask is a
  courtesy, not a gate, at least on the search and release-lookup routes.
- **TMDB v4**, advertised as a new, distinct header-token auth model layered over v3's
  `api_key=` query parameter, returns the byte-identical `status_code: 7` / "Invalid API
  key" error body as v3's own missing-key case — including the literal word "key" in a v4
  response that never had an `api_key` query parameter to refer to. The "new" auth system
  shares its failure path with the old one at the body level; only the `401` vs `200`
  status code differs between generations.
- **Lyrics.ovh**'s `/suggest/{term}` endpoint, pitched as its own title-suggestion helper,
  is a live passthrough to **Deezer's public search API** — the returned objects carry
  Deezer-specific fields (ISRC, Deezer track ID, `deezer.com` permalink, Deezer CDN
  preview URL) that don't exist anywhere in Lyrics.ovh's own lyrics-lookup response shape.
  A client treating `/suggest` as Lyrics.ovh's own index is unknowingly reading and
  re-publishing Deezer's catalogue under a different hostname.

Each of these is independently checkable today with a single GET and a stopwatch or a
diff of two JSON shapes — none requires special access, and all four contradict either the
service's own documentation or a widely-repeated developer assumption about it.

## Derived from (4 sources, this lane)
TVmaze API depth; Discogs API; TMDB v4; Lyrics.ovh.

## How observed
Cross-read of the four source records in this lane, all observed live 2026-10-05
~07:42-07:44 UTC.

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