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What's next? Binding you to your couch during commercials? Some content providers are slowly going insane.

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https://news.com.com/Someone+has+to+pay+for+TV--but+who/2100-1041_3-6069449.html?tag=nefd.top

Apparently there's a new standard that will prevent you from (get this) fast-forwarding through commercials. Worst - it will not even let you change channels.

I have a TiVo. It makes watching TV bearable. For every 2 minutes of actual TV you watch w/o it, you can expect to watch 1 minute of commercials. And now, it seems, content providers want to block that too.

From the article:

Four years ago, Jamie Kellner, then head of the Turner Broadcasting System, remarked in an interview in CableWorld magazine that viewers who used DVRs to fast-forward past commercials were committing "theft," then a moment later described it as "stealing the programming." He did allow trips to the bathroom as a noncriminal exemption.

He allows us trips to the bathroom? Thanks man!

What's next? "Turning off your TV is considered theft since you are not watching all the commercials that our advertisers pay for.."?

DRM.. Broadcast Flag.. No internet neutrality.. No fast forward.. [Insert melodramatic closing statement here about not owning our own DNA soon]

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2006
    It will not happen. Because if it does, it will be the day when millions of people kiss their cable subscription goodbye.
  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2006
    Somehow, I doubt it. I am sure there will be some percentage that will leave (10%?) but the rest will stay and suffer.

    I know I wil stop paying for cable then and there.
  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2006
    I see it as a good thing - if one company patents such a "Clockwork Orange device" then other companies would not use it. Philips would be a much better patent holder than Sony, since they don't have shared interests in both hardware and media.
  • Anonymous
    May 10, 2006
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