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  • From: "Gina Norman" <gina.norman AT nortelnetworks.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] for the tivio addicted
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:18:20 -0400

Title: RE: [internetworkers] for the tivio addicted

> 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."

Wowsers.  Learn some thing new every day! I had no idea that the networks folks were so... Erm... take your pick:  idealistic or deluded.  I wonder what they think about the DVRs that their distributors are renting?

-Gina




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