I HATE COMMERCIALS YOU STUPID RECORDING INDUSTRY!

[Weltall]

Before, we DID have the right to turn it off and read a book. Now, if we watch PART of it, we are now LEGALLY REQUIRED to watch ALL of it. We CAN'T turn it off.

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how you get this out of being unable to skip commercials. I mean, on TV, you're pretty much stuck anyway and we have been for a half-century plus. This same idea has been a part of movie theaterdom forever as well. No one complains about it. On DVDs? Eh. If I actually watched movies on a regular basis, I guess I might care. the fact is, you are purchasing a movie as it is sold to you. If the studios say you have to watch these previews, dadgummit, you're going to watch them. It's their right to do that, because they can make these things however they want to. But you do have options. You can take the silent protest route, and mute or turn off the TV until the previews end. You can also choose not to buy these movies. If there were sharp financial repercussions from this decision, you know they'd stop it. THAT is the choice of the consumer. That is capitalism. If you simply can't live without the movie, then you watch it on their terms. If the idea bothers people so much, it's up to them to put their principles above their self-gratification. If they can't do that, they have no reason to bitch. That's how it is.