WTF ?!? # TV NETWORKS SAY You're BREAKING The LAW When You SKIP COMMERCIALS #

really nothing sensational about it.
this headlines truth.
i mean really whats next they open my door for smelling some weed and then fine me cause i recorded what i paid for?

I have satellite TV and if I'm paying to receive these various networks I certainly don't want to watch commercials. If it was over the air, "FREE", then commercials pay for my free TV.

Who do these networks think they are? Without distribution channels like COMCAST and DISH, there wouldn't be anybody out there to display their programming other than a mom/pop broadcaster.

Networks should be paying the distribution outlets rather than the other way around. It would be very easy for DISH or COMCAST to create their own virtual networks and compete directly with the public with their own material and talent.

So if I was a network exec, I would step down from my perceived high value and merit, think again, because you can be replaced at the distribution point.

Suck it up, everybody is hurting.

No the headline is sensational. It suggests that people will be fined for taking a piss during a commercial break. It's utter garbage for people who cannot be bothered to read the actual article and see what its actually about. Lazy fucks.

Retarded, hilarious, pathetic... I just don't know how to describe this.

We did ten plus years ago, it frees the mind in a way that is hard to describe.

The networks are fighting a losing fight. They are obsolete and in the end will disappear or morph into something else.

It's all about money.

Fuck them in their stinky little jewish asses... Notice that I didn't capitalize the "j" on jewsish - it doesn't deserve it..

Fuck them and fuck their stupid commercials.

Its the MTV affect. More viewers = more ratings = more advertisement = $$$$

The networks seem to forget. It's the viewers right to choose to watch the commercials. What is the difference between changing the channel or walking away than having Auto Thingy turned off on the Hopper Box?

By the way, do television networks break the law and/or all basic rules and code(s) of conduct of society, when they say absolute bulls... like this?!

Worlwide and simultaneously and on (almost) all areas of life, the freedom and the civil liberties etc. of the common people are massively endangered.

If this utter bulls... on all areas of life is not stopped timely and completely, then life on earth will become a daily hell for all common people, if it has not already become like this...

AMEN!

2.5 years here too and won't ever have that crap in my home again.

Great point!! Maybe we all need to back DISH network up with letters of support!! I'd be all about it.

Great point!! Maybe we all need to back DISH network up with letters of support!! I'd be all about it.

Absolutely correct. It is the VIEWERS choice, not Dish's.

The argument being made (i would think, i have not read the case) is Dish is interfering with a contract (between the networks and commercial). Dish makes the decision to skip the commercial, not the consumer...or so is the argument.

Personally, i would love to be able to skip the commercials automatically. But I want to be the one who makes the choice. Or skip the commercials I want.

This is about much more than commercials. They will use this to set the precedent. There will be so much public support for Dish and the hopper. Everyone will be excited when Dish wins and we can all skip commercials automatically.

As always, this precedent will be used for something 1000% more important that we all dont want. Just think of how many things that you get from company "A" but all company "A" does is provide you or distribute to you something that company "B" and company "C" make. Now company "A' has a precedent to alter/change/modify whatever it is that they provide/distribute.

Anybody here want an ISP to have that right? Just think of what they could do with that precedent. too many examples to list with this one.

Anybody here want a bank to have that right? Just think, you and your employer have agreed to have your paycheck direct deposited into your bank. Do you want your bank to be able to alter that?

Like i said, this is about much more than skipping commercials. the implications are endless.

And yes, i want to be able to skip commercials. But i want it to be my choice! There is much more here going on behind the scenes, they want this to pass so that they can use it on other things.

Just my opinion.

Wonder what it will do to their ratings and the value of their commercial time sales when all good "law abiding" citizens start getting their TV from Commercial free sources?? I mean if the networks want to accuse me of doing something illegal, they'd better be prepared for the fact that I will take my viewing elsewhere! I don't need their crummy shows. They need viewers. Maybe the fucking morons at the network have forgotten that salient fact, but I can assure you the rest of America has not!

I will happily put all commercial containing channels on my "skip" list so I won't even see them as I'm trying to decide what to watch. Let a few hundred thousand families do that and suddenly the commercial time in prime-time is going to be half as costly as it was previously. Maybe even less!

The rating systems can be crashed by a few families running over to HBO or Showtime and letting NBC, CBS, and ABC (and maybe FOX too) rot!

Guess what? I don't fucking watch TV. Cuz I'm not a sheeple. They could suck and gag on the big fat cock I'd have if I were a dude.

Who needs tv than...

if Dish is breaking the law then what about me and my skipping? wouldnt we all be breaking the law? maybe im allowed to break the law just not with the use of technology? why should Dish and I have to honor anothers contract? spitting on the sidewalk breaks laws, so this title doesnt suggest anything crazy to me.

Threw out the idiot box years ago, when things went digital.

Extremely good riddance.

I can't believe how many of you admit to being such sheep that still watch TV?!! WTF?! I mean, are your lives that boring that you insist on being brainwashed?

DO you enjoy being slaves? If so, then good! We can make you even more gullible with our plans to increase your Cable and satellite bills! Keep watching you morons! All you're doing is giving us more money that you don't need anyway. Pretty soon, the NWO will be in full swing and you will be completely plugged into the Matrix and you will never get out! You are plugged in and have no clue as to why.


BWHAHAHAHAHA!

In Holland we have 3 'public' channels. A bit like the BBC with commercial blocks inbetween programs.

Besides that there are six or seven commercial channels where you can watch pretty much programs inbetween commercials.

I gave up watching films & tv shows there long ago.

Prisoner 1: So... what are you in for, pal?

Prisoner 2: I'm afraid to say, it's so horrible.

Prisoner 1: Ohh... C'mon. I promise to keep it too myself.

Prisoner 2: Well, OK. Only if you really promise to keep this confidential.

Prisoner 1: I promise... I promise. Now what did you do??

Prisoner 2: I... I... I skipped over some TV commercials.

Prisoner 1: AGGGHHHH!!!!! Guard! Guard!!! Please get me out of here. I want another cellmate!!!


AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really?? no one thinks.. if networks lose all they will do is make the commercials take place during the show to bypass this function. like CNN ticker tape updates. while the show is on they will put advertising at the bottom of the screen. This is more subliminal than most commercials are now.

Think ppl, this is all part of the bigger picture.

Gah, you are all missing the point. It's the same law that protects companies like xbox from having to worry about people releasing a system that will play pirated xbox games....

Ahh we had the movie biz try take over the net so now the whole show biz is going to try.

The Human eye can only analyze 33 frame a second. Your new tv produces a lot more...where is the rest of the frames you ask? They are in your head....

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JVQvuj9IJ0w

Oh, Snap!