So What Senate Moron Is Responsible For This?

[Hogan Made Wrestling]

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/10950

 

THE US CONGRESS is considering making fast forwarding through video advertisements a crime.  Lawmakers in the land of the free have decided that it is costing their chums in the movie industry far too much money and want video fast-forwarders placed in the same league as pirates.

 

According to NBC news the new law allows families to use new DVD technology self censor explicit scenes of sex and violence but forbids them to edit out advertisements.

 

Consumer advocacy group, Public Knowledge is fighting the bill saying that it is ever American's right not to watch advertisements if they don't want. It claims that the movie industry is leaning on its tame senators to prevent the loss of revenue.

 

However the Motion Picture Association has been fighting hard to prevent people using the latest DVD technology to allow users to skip the advertisements.

 

It added that it supports other parts of the act, "particularly those provisions that will help combat the theft of motion pictures". If you can see how the two things are connected we would love to know how.

[2GOLD]

I hate the Motion Picture Association almost as much as I hate those RIAA freaks.

 

Preventing fast forwarding? That's just stupid.

[Guest Cerebus]

Luckily, this hurts the idea that America is turning too corporate.

 

Or IS it?

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Put me down for Wacky Orin.

 

And commercials serve their purpose -- you need a bathroom break every now and then...

[The Czech Republic]

They're not gonna be happy about TiVo.

 

God I hope Hollings was behind this garbage, I don't want it coming from my party. Even I'm not enough of a GOP sheep to endorse something as ridiculous as this.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

You have to be or you're out of the club, hippie...

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

That has Orin Hatch written all over it.

 

I swear that man is living in the stone ages with his anti-technology bills.

[Guest Cerebus]

Luckily they tell the name of the bill making it quite easy to verify this report with primary documents.

[BX]

This legislation is absolute garbage. One of my biggest gripes about our government has always been their willingness to bow to corporate lobbists.

 

I usually look at a candidates overall voting record during election years, avoiding individual issues like this, but I'll have to pay special attention to this bill. If any of the representatives in my district vote for this garbage, I'm voting against them in 06/08, despite the letter beside their name.

 

Fucking ridiculous.

[Dr. Tom]

What a crock of shit. The MPAA is getting to be as bad as the RIAA. No wonder so many people are pirates.

[BX]

It's not so much about the pirates. It's about the fucking advertising lobby bitching and whining that they don't enough opportunities in our consumer-driven society to force-feed their feces/logos/products down our collective throats. As if seeing logos on something every waking moment of our lives, wearing them like a fucking badge-of-honor (Nike comes to mind) and enticing people to name their own child after a fucking video game for a few thousand dollars wasn't enough.

[NoCalMike]

I think there should be a law against commercials magically being about 10 notches higher in volume then the actual tv show you are watching.

 

Seriously though, what is next, it is illegal to channel surf during commercials?

 

Corporate America Rules~!

[Guest Evolution]

They're not gonna be happy about TiVo.

Well, soon TiVo will have billboard ads for people fast forwarding through commercials anyway, so that's that.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Seriously though, what is next, it is illegal to channel surf during commercials?

 

LOL -- your remote will shut down during the breaks.

 

And the high-volume commercials also do that on radio. F'ing annoying.

 

Also, I wouldn't mind ads in the theater, but at least make them "movie only." I so hate seeing an ad I've seen on TV on the Silver Screen as well...

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One of my friends mentioned he heard about this and I told him there's no way anybody is dumb enough to do that, guess I owe him a coke. I started downloading movies when they started airing those anti-piracy ads at theatres, this cements MPAA being as bad as the FCC and RIAA in my book.

[Slayer]

This has to be a second-hand Onion article or something, right?

 

There's no way this can be real...

 

I hate not being able to skip the FBI warnings at the beginning of every DVD. At least with VCRs I could FF 5 minutes in without watching anything

[Tawren]

I think we should all download several movies right now just to spite those MPAA fuckers.

[Vern Gagne]

I'm guessing this reaches across partylines.

 

When is Dr.Pepper or McDonalds going to ask me to put their logo on my car or on my clothing? That's the kind of corporate whoring I could get behind.

[kkktookmybabyaway]

If they pay me, I'd be all for it...

[Jobber of the Week]

And commercials serve their purpose -- you need a bathroom break every now and then...

We are enforcing your CONSITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT to commercials. Smile, citizen!

[kkktookmybabyaway]

 

Damn icon doesn't show off my dimples...

[Special K]

^

that's hot.

 

i honestly fly into a rage at ads. It's the reason I don't watch TV anymore, i think. I freakin' rent shows as an alternative. I mean, I love the Spider-Man movies, but when they thought about putting ads on MLB bases, I bitched about it ad nauseum.

(EDIT: huh huh huh AD nauseum. that wasn't intentional.)

 

Fucking DVD ads piss me off almost as much. Half the DVDs have an ad for THE FUCKING MOVIE YOU'RE WATCHING. I already FUCKING RENTED IT. SOME OF THE ADS HAVE SPOILERS! AAARRRRGH I'm going to go chew on a washclothe now.