[mythtv-users] Congress to Make Commercial Skipping Illegal

[Lane Schwartz]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:20:50 -0500, Jonathan Link
<jonathan.link at gmail.com> wrote:
> IANAL, either, but this is clearly outlined by the Wired article.
> The section you site pertains to Motion Pictures, not television, and
> is meant to allow people to skip graphic/obscene parts of a Motion
> Picture.

Exactly - the section exempts skipping parts of a motion picture.

It explicitly does not exempt skipping commercials. Therefore, if this
passes, it will be OK to skip parts of a movie, but not OK to skip
commercials.

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