twesterm said:
Are you sure that was actually won and not later overturned? Anyways, yeah, they hate it but there isn't a lot they can do about it. About the best thing they do now (by their logic, I hate it) is run shows a minute into the next shows timeslot to discourage recording it and watching it later. If you watch it live, you have to watch commercials. Also, FaRmLaNd, TV (basic at least) is free. We don't pay anything because of advertisements so it's free because of them, it's not somehow not free because someone else pays. You can go into pointless little nit picking like that all day but then we might as well say nothing is free because you can come up with stupid nitpicks like that all day for anything.
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No, they just outright won. It wasn't a DVR though now that I think about it. It was about DVDs.
They passed a law changing the rule in 2005.
However if you'd ever fastfowarded or skipped scenes in a DVD before 2005 you were breaking copyright law.
A similar lawsuit was filed against something else too.
"Your contract when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots [advertisements]. … Any time you skip a commercial … you're actually stealing the programming,"
http://web.archive.org/web/20040109123147/http://forbesbest.com/2002/05/03/0503sonicblue_print.html
I actually agree with them. I mean think about it Twesterm. If nobody watches the Advertising... people stop advertising. Shows stop existing.
It's no different then your complaints with piracy. Skipping all the advertising or watching the shows on non-approved sites like youtube is just as bad as piracy of any kind.