Kasz216 said:
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. |
So am I breaking the law if I do what everyone else does that watches live TV and goes to the bathroom and gets food/drink during commercials?
And I remember that retarded DVD fast forwarding thing and it's, well, retarded. I still skip them whenever I can.
Also, I think a more fun question than the OP posed would be if it's immoral/illegal to use adblock/noScripts and the likes and then go to places like Hulu?
Plenty of people here will say they don't pirate games, movies, or music, but how many people here will say they don't use things like NoScript and AdBlock Plus and deny sites advertising money?