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  • From: David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] for the tivio addicted
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:48:34 -0400

i knew i had seen this and i thought it came from this list. had been pruned from my saved messages tree, but wonderful google found it in an instant:

http://www.google.com/ search?q=certain+amount+tolerance&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 8&safe=off&edition=us&sa=N&tab=nw

or more simply:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/internetworkers/2002-June/005817.html
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(quote)

In an interview with [INSIDE] Magazine, Turner Broadcasting CEO Jamie Kellner
voiced this opinion on the issue: "[T]he ad skips . . .. It's theft. Your
contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the
spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time
you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the
programming."

When prompted, Kellner did admit that "there's a certain amount of tolerance
for going to the bathroom."

(end quote)
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from Josep; who also said "Kill Your Television." i couldn't agree more.

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Gina Norman wrote:

> In the minds of the people who provide you with Television programming,
> skipping the commercials equals Theft.  You are "stealing" the shows if
> you do this.

Really?  I hadn't heard that ... I am sure they don't *like* it, but I didn't know they equated it with stealing.  If they (the cable providers) do think it's stealing though, it's kinda funny that I can fast forward through commercials on the DVR that Time Warner is leasing me (for a couple bucks a month, so it's not like they're making up for potentially lost advertising revenue that way).  You'd think they'd disable that, if they found it hateful...






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