Bill Could Criminalize Fast-Forwarding DVD Ads, Trailers
Sorry if this is a repost but I could not find anything.
This link is from Anandtech main page and says that there may be a bill making illegal to fast-forward through DVD ads or trailers.
My first though is that this would have no choice of going through but I have been amazed at the things this country is capable of these past years.
I expected something similar to this when TIVO was required to remove the commercial advance feature recently. I still think they can still be fast-forwarded manually (I don't have it so I don't know), but if it can skip through commercials, then forcing them to play is not much harder.
And I don't think this bill would be enforceable but it would make DVDs and players locked when any ads are playing not allowing any action like the FBI warning in some cases. Talk about a fun home theater experience.
And then comes the next step where you cannot channel surf at home during commercials. So if you want to change the channel you need to wait for the ads to end. And I don't think this would be a problem to do with today's digital receivers.
Then maybe you could have ads between audio tracks or your CD or audio DVD that you can't skip either.
And I would imagine one day it may be just as illegal to delete your email advertisements which today would be considered spam.
PERSONALLY, I would like to see the exact onsite of this bill.
One that would make it illegal to prevent the user from not view any add unless the product is explicitly funded by the ads. So a free add based program or service is legal, but a paid for program or service of this type would be illegal.
I would also like to add that any ads that interfere with the regular advertised use of product to be illegal as you don't what to not be able to watch your DVD because you have ads appearing on the screen.
Best of all it would make those pesky popup ads that practically cannot be closed normally illegal as well as those flash ads that can cover a web-page and if they don't have a close option have to be viewed to see the page.
Are there any layers or other people that agree with me and would like to do something or would you rather be stuck viewing all those ads?
Sorry if this is a repost but I could not find anything.
This link is from Anandtech main page and says that there may be a bill making illegal to fast-forward through DVD ads or trailers.
My first though is that this would have no choice of going through but I have been amazed at the things this country is capable of these past years.
I expected something similar to this when TIVO was required to remove the commercial advance feature recently. I still think they can still be fast-forwarded manually (I don't have it so I don't know), but if it can skip through commercials, then forcing them to play is not much harder.
And I don't think this bill would be enforceable but it would make DVDs and players locked when any ads are playing not allowing any action like the FBI warning in some cases. Talk about a fun home theater experience.
And then comes the next step where you cannot channel surf at home during commercials. So if you want to change the channel you need to wait for the ads to end. And I don't think this would be a problem to do with today's digital receivers.
Then maybe you could have ads between audio tracks or your CD or audio DVD that you can't skip either.
And I would imagine one day it may be just as illegal to delete your email advertisements which today would be considered spam.
PERSONALLY, I would like to see the exact onsite of this bill.
One that would make it illegal to prevent the user from not view any add unless the product is explicitly funded by the ads. So a free add based program or service is legal, but a paid for program or service of this type would be illegal.
I would also like to add that any ads that interfere with the regular advertised use of product to be illegal as you don't what to not be able to watch your DVD because you have ads appearing on the screen.
Best of all it would make those pesky popup ads that practically cannot be closed normally illegal as well as those flash ads that can cover a web-page and if they don't have a close option have to be viewed to see the page.
Are there any layers or other people that agree with me and would like to do something or would you rather be stuck viewing all those ads?
