Coming soon: No more choice!I don't know what it is in the world, but I have this very weird impression that our "liberty" is more and more endangered. The Palladium project that will allow Redmond to rule the (computer) world and before that, there was this amazing speech by Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting: ...In response to a question on why personal video recorders (PVR's) were bad for the industry, Kellner responded: "Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. [...] Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming." [...] When asked if he considers people who go to the bathroom during a commercial to be thieves, he responded: "I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom.... [Cableworld] via [2600:The Hacker Quarterly]
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