22nd November 2004, 11:36 AM
Quote: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.
Change TiVo so that it doesn't have an 'auto-skip-ads' function and it'd be illegal again. Making the Menu button or scene selection illegal? Um, what in the world? This has nothing to do with that! All it'd do is make those buttons inactive during the unskippable previews.