21st November 2004, 11:39 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote: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.
Two things:
1: Nothing I saw in that article even hinted at, in even the vaguest terminology that I could see, the idea that you had to keep your eyes on the set during commercials or else. That's where I find the major contention with you here. You're right, I don't get it, because I can't find any evidence that what you're saying is a part of this bill. Maybe I'm blind, point it out to me.
2: Let's assume for a second that you're right, even literally. There's no way in hell it could possibly be enforced.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR