22nd November 2004, 12:26 AM
Quote:However, under the proposed language, viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commericals or promotional announcements "that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture," like the previews on a DVD.
That able to be interpreted that way? Basically it says Tivo is illegal, as is the menu button on your remote control, as is the scene selection. Sure, it doesn't specify it, but the companies can easily make this out to LOOK like it. One step after this is considering your eyelids "devices". Yeah, that's a bit too far, but you see exactly what this is saying right? It's saying that you are legally required to watch commercials, not just that they can put commercials you can't skip in DVDs or on TV, I mean they already do that.
By the way, cool avatar.
"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)