Is 'Fair Use' in Peril?

Technology Review ^ | November 19, 2004 | Eric Hellweg

[joshhiggins]

I WILL take up arms!

When they pry my cold dead fingers from my remote control.

[streetpreacher]

ROTFLOL... that one line uttered on the floor of the Senate would kill this thing...

...in saner times.

[vrwc0915]

I am sure that I am a lawbreaker as I have been without a TV for 4 years now! Best descision we ever made damn idiot box wastes so much time

[peyton randolph]

The bathroom is too dangerous anyway, they should be outlawed with this bill too.

Particularly those with toilets that flush more than one gallon of water...oops, guess we've already legislated that issue as an environmental concern.

[Sarah]

In France they almost have eliminated the need for commercials by putting into law a TV tax. Anyone who has a television, (proved by purchase), is assessed an annual tax paid directly to the government. Around 150$
On the half hour there are a few however, and most can tell by the editing where the additional commercials were placed for broadcast in the States.

[aligncare]

"Skip a bath...Save a life"

"Friends don't let friends bathe"

[mdmathis6]

Correction" Going into the bathroom after a man who has beans and franks for supper has "finished" up is dangerous...may well be a death sentence!

[aligncare]

It's hard to imagine that there is a part of the US Constitution that deals with...Quantity of Water Per Flush. How prescient the Founders were!

[Hank Rearden]

with Senator Orrin Hatch a very Hollywood-friendly pol on his way out as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to be replaced possibly by Arlen Specter

Great. Two senile old coots, who together don't have the intellectual horsepower necessary to plug in a VCR, are in the driver's seat.

The Republican Party is done, and needs to go the way of the Whigs.

[aligncare]

I'm beginning to suspect that most of us vote for pubbies because we don't want the dems. And not necessarily because we like the pubs.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Arlen Specter has been Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee for almost a year.

Who did you say was senile?

[aligncare]

By the way...very funny and well crafted. I enjoyed your work. Thanks!

[Old Seadog]

"I'm beginning to suspect that most of us vote for pubbies because we don't want the dems. And not necessarily because we like the pubs."
You got that right.

[Tench_Coxe]

Nice way to kill entertainment of the TV and movie sort. Next, there will be a law requiring US citizens to mandatorily watch 4 hours of TV per day.

[6SJ7]

I'm beginning to suspect that most of us vote for pubbies because we don't want the dems. And not necessarily because we like the pubs.

Kind of like a choice of being slow-cooked or micro-waved.

[Lancey Howard]

This is from a year ago. Is there an update?

[aligncare]

Funny analogy! And so true.

I believe that the American people are conservative. I'm hopeful that eventually, through their participation, we will get a Conservative majority in American politics.

[vrwc0915]

Whey you vote for the lesser of two evils you still get evil

[TBP]

Keep zapping. They can't lock us all up, cna they?

[GregoryFul]

In the bill's fine print it says that if you need to leave the viewing area, you must do in on "your own time" - during the program.

I wonder if TiVo is gathering statistics on the prevalence of fast forwarding through commercials.