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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Right.
Since you are not watching the commercials, then you essentially are not PAYING For anything you claim to pay for. That is how you, the TV watcher and consumer, fit into this puzzle. Your paying for cable is not giving you any copyright, or licensing you anything. You are paying for a membership essentially, or the signal, to receive cable channels. So the only bullshit here friend is you.
The rest of us just need to wear some waders when you are around.
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so going to take a shit during the commercial break is a copyright violation now (since your not paying for that content)
and going to the kitchen to get food (same reason)
You are grasping at straws with that bullshit arguement
i suggest you re-read my post
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It doesn't matter because it is paid for by the timeshifter and the contract/licience(cable bill) does not/can not explictly require the watching of commercials (without violating anti-trust law)
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there is no way the copyrightholder can make such a demand without violating anti-trust laws.
There is no way the cable company can make such a demand without violating anti-trust laws.
each would be an attempt to extend copyright monopoly beyond the bounds of copyright licience.
The cable bill pays for the content
the timeshifting ruling allows me to skip the commercials if a want to.
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The Betamax is also equipped with a pause button and a fast-forward control. The pause button, when depressed, deactivates the recorder until it is released, thus enabling a viewer to omit a commercial advertisement from the recording, provided, of course, that the viewer is present when the program is recorded. The fast-forward control enables the viewer of a previously recorded program to run the tape rapidly when a segment he or she does not desire to see is being played back on the television screen.
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just because the technology has gotten better and doing those tasks does not take away the "fair use" rights granted by that court ruling.