21st November 2004, 10:44 PM
Um Weltall, you aren't getting it.
This is about laws that say YOU MUST SIT THERE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN AND WATCH IT. This isn't hyperbole, this law LITERALLY says you MUST watch it and aren't ALLOWED to mute it. THAT is what I'm upset about. If they sell the DVDs with unskippable commercials, so be it, but LET me get around them if I find a way on my own. These laws say you can't act on your own to avoid them.
You think I'm saying they should go out of their way to make commercials skippable. No, I'm not (that's an issue of me just making a standard customer complaint). I'm against laws that say I am literally REQUIRED to watch the commercials or face penalties.
This is about laws that say YOU MUST SIT THERE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN AND WATCH IT. This isn't hyperbole, this law LITERALLY says you MUST watch it and aren't ALLOWED to mute it. THAT is what I'm upset about. If they sell the DVDs with unskippable commercials, so be it, but LET me get around them if I find a way on my own. These laws say you can't act on your own to avoid them.
You think I'm saying they should go out of their way to make commercials skippable. No, I'm not (that's an issue of me just making a standard customer complaint). I'm against laws that say I am literally REQUIRED to watch the commercials or face penalties.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)