If I can't watch a TV program without commercials.... I won't watch it.
According to the MPAA, technology to enable people to skip adverts is theft, and they've already stopped the production of one recorder that offered the feature.
From the legal action launched against the makers of "ReplayTV":
"Plaintiffs bring this action to obtain preliminary and permanent relief against an unlawful plan by defendants to arm their customers with -- and continuously assist them in using -- unprecedented new tools for violating plaintiffs’ copyright interests in the programming they supply to various television distribution services, including their own program services. Defendants’ unlawful scheme, which is centered on a new device called a “ReplayTV 4000,” seeks to profit from two novel methods of violating plaintiffs’ rights. First, defendants enable, assist, and induce their ReplayTV 4000 customers to make unauthorized digital copies of plaintiffs’ copyrighted television programming for the purpose of -- at the touch of a button -- viewing the programming with all commercial advertising automatically deleted. (Defendants offer essentially this same feature on another device, a new analog videocassette recorder (“VCR”) called the “DDV2120.”) This unlawful activity harms the potential market for and value of plaintiffs’ copyrighted works because commercial advertising is a crucial (and often the sole) means by which plaintiffs receive payment for such programming. "
and vulcan... you seem perfectly happy with punishing everyone for the criminal acts of a very tiny minority when it comes to guns but are outraged when the majority is punished for the criminal acts of many concerning your precious tv and mp3 stuff..
I would say that the criminals in the latter media outnumber firearms criminals on a ten to one per capita basis at a minumum.. the theft and criminal activity is rampant.
This is what I can't understand about your position, lazs.
You are against controls on guns, because as well as being used to murder people, guns are used for legitimate purposes.
Yet you don't seem to apply the same criteria to devices that enable you to record TV (for example).
Now, personally, I'd say 1 murder outweighs rather a lot of pirate mp3s being swapped, and 10,000+ a year outweigh the swapping of mp3s altogether.
So if someone potentially recording a TV programme instead of buying a DVD justifies restricting
everyone's ability to record TV, shouldn't someone potentially shooting someone else restrict the availability of guns?
Or is someone recording a TV programme illegally really worse than murder, therefore justifying stricter control on video recorders than guns?
