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scottxyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-23-04 07:01 PM
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Republicans want to ban fast forwarding
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Do you like fast-forwarding through commercials on a television program you’ve recorded? How much do you like it? Enough to go to jail if you’re caught doing it? If a new copyright and intellectual property omnibus bill sitting on Congress’s desk passes, that may be the choice you'll face.

How can this be possible? Because language that makes fast-forwarding through commercials illegal — no doubt inserted at the behest of lobbyists for the advertising industry — was inserted into a bill...

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/wo_hellweg111904.asp?trk=nl

First they came for the TiVo users...

http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2004/11/first_they_came.html
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