[mythtv-users] Congress to Make Commercial Skipping Illegal

[Lane Schwartz]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:24:54 -0500, Harry Orenstein <holists at v92net.com> wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 02:54 pm, Gregory Nicholls wrote:
> 
> 
> > George Galt wrote:
> > >All:
> > >
> > >The House has passed HR 2391, which is being considered by the Senate
> > >today (11/16).  Successful passage by the Senate will put this bill on
> > >the President's desk late this year or early next.
> > >
> > >This bill makes it a violation of the Copyright Act to skip
> > >commercials using a technological means (hardware or software) -- and
> > >it makes it a violation to make the computer program that allows
> > >people to skip commercials.  You can get information on the bill here:
> > >http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.02391:
> > >
> > >and you can read the Wired story on the bill here:
> > >
> > >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65704,00.html
> > >
> > >My suggestion is call your Senators and Representatives and let them
> > >know that it is ridiculous to make it illegal for you to skip
> > >commercials (assuming you agree that it is).
> > >
> > >You can reach your Senators and Representatives through the Capitol
> > >switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or (202) 225-3121.  Or you can email
> > >them by going to their web sites, which you can find through
> > >www.senate.gov or www.house.gov.
> > >
> > >George
> 
> 
> In case anyone is still interested... MSN reports that the provision of the
> bill making it illegal to remove commercials was removed (along with other
> changes) before the bill was passed.  Assuming this provision is not
> reinstated when the Senate and House versions of the bill are reconciled I
> would guess that we "dodged the bullet" (for now).
> 
> -- Harry O.

Harry, do you have any links to the article?

Lane

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