[IP] more on Skipping Commercials Soon To Be a Crime?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Steve Worona <SLW1@cornell.edu>
Date: November 17, 2004 3:54:41 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Skipping Commercials Soon To Be a Crime?

We were told two years ago that this was coming:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020509_sprigman.html

Jamie Kellner, then Chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting, said:

"[Skipping commercials is] 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 . . . you're actually stealing the programming."

He did allow, though, that "there's a certain amount of tolerance for 
bathroom breaks."

That's a relief.

Steve Worona

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