[kevao]

I tune in my television because I want to; I do not recieve telemarketing calls because I want to.

I can disconnect my television without undue loss; I cannot disconnect my phone without disrupting my private or professional life.

For the telemarketers to not call me causes no loss to them, however; for I would never purchase anything from a telemarketer anyway.

[elfman2]

"I tune in my television because I want to; I do not recieve telemarketing calls because I want to. "

You receive all kinds of garbage on your TV that you don’t want. You can install an answering machine for next to nothing if you don’t want to talk to them. If none of those 50 million signed up were prone to purchasing, telemarketers wouldn’t care.