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SKIPPING COMMERCIALS IS STEALING ACCORDING TO TURNER CEO
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Posted on 05/02/2002 6:45:29 AM PDT by Grig
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I didn't sign any contract to watch commercials. Next they well tell you that you have to watch all the shows too.
And I'm still going to go to the can or fridge when I feel like it. The DMCA has got to go. This is just nuts.
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posted on
05/02/2002 6:45:30 AM PDT
by
Grig
To: Grig
Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Am I guilty of theft when I get up to take a piss during commercials or go to the fridge to get a drink?
Am I guilty of grand larceny when I change channels during commericals in an attempt to watch 3, 4, or 5 shows at once?
To: Grig
"I'm still going to go to the can or fridge "
Focus man!!
Do not get confused!
A targeting error can have high collateral damage.
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posted on
05/02/2002 6:50:07 AM PDT
by
APBaer
To: Grig
DMCA and its spawn-of-Satan cousins is some of teh worst law ever formulated. Basically, it codifies allowing Hollywood to hack your computer and makes a felon out of you for trying to stop them. DMCA supporters are EVIL.
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posted on
05/02/2002 6:51:32 AM PDT
by
eno_
To: Grig
Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming." SHEESH, so when I hop into the shower during commercials I'm also stealing?? These network people are sheer idiots.
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posted on
05/02/2002 6:51:53 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Grig
Then following that line of logic it's also stealing when I change the channel and watch another show to avoid the commercials.
I almost hope they make a case out of this, it'd make me read more which is something I should be doing anyway.
To: Grig
I suppose we could have a toilet installed in the den or wherever we watch TV. You could disguise it as a regular chair. Are we stealing if we channel surf during the commercial? What if your mind wanders--would that be stealing?
To: Grig
All your commercials are belong to us
To: Grig
Hey Kellner, here's a preview of coming attractions...Power off, CLICK!
Now, go explain to your advertisers what a dumba$$, arrogant jerk you are.
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posted on
05/02/2002 6:55:40 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: Grig
"When asked if he considers people who go to the bathroom during a commercial to be thieves, he responded: 'I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial.' Heaven forbid"LOL...mighty white of him to "allow" me to go to the bathroom during the commercial break.
Now: when they can create and enforce a law which will prevent me from jumping up and checking on supper, checking/filling the woodstove, or continuing with reading whatever book I'm reading (the only way to watch TV, as far as I'm concerned, is with a good book) THEN they might also be able to prevent me from not watching hundreds of simpleminded commercials for Viagra, hemorrhoid preperations, yeast infection cures and tampon commercials a day.
Not bloody likely, though.
This post at least deserves a wry humor BUMP
To: Grig
What a bunch of punkass liberals...whine...they're lucky people watch at all. Technology will make them irrelevant anyway. gee, what has aoltimewarner stock been doing lately, anyhow?
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posted on
05/02/2002 7:00:06 AM PDT
by
galt-jw
To: APBaer
A targeting error can have high collateral damage. I only did that once, dammit, and that was a long time ago, so lay off, alright?
;)
To: Phantom Lord
Am I guilty of theft when I get up to take a piss during commercials or go to the fridge to get a drink?According to Ted the commie Turner you are! Have you read about the laws that hollyweird are trying to ram through the Congress with the help of Sinator Hollings? It would ruin the computer and hardware market. These jerks want to make it so you can never own any music or movie, just rent it and pay for it each and every time you watch or listen to it, forever!
To: Phantom Lord
Am I guilty of theft when I get up to take a piss during commercials . . . ?Get one of these and park it in front of the idiot box:
To: Grig
The reasoning is so absurd it should be given wide publicity, with all of the reductio ad absurdam examples anyone can think of. Ridicule is the best weapon against this.
To: Phantom Lord
Am I guilty of theft when I get up to take a piss during commercials or go to the fridge to get a drink?Shoot, commericials are so much louder than regular programming, I bet you can still hear them while taking a, er um, can out the fridge.
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posted on
05/02/2002 7:09:31 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: 1Old Pro, brytani
uhoh !
Brytani, you're in deep doodoo !
fofl
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posted on
05/02/2002 7:09:34 AM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Grig
This low life thief flies his corporate jet just to avoid the bridge and turnpike tolls, and I'll bet he avoids paying his housemate for services rendered.
To: Phantom Lord
Am I guilty of theft when I get up to take a piss during commercials or go to the fridge to get a drink?
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They're developing a chip that will lock the crapper's seat down and the reefer's door closed during the commercial breaks.
To: Grig
Hey, Ted--free speech includes the right not to listen!
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