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--- From: "White, Sam" <Sam.White@mail.house.gov> To: "'declan'" <declan@well.com> Subject: skipping commercials is stealing? Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 17:43:40 -0400 Hi Declan - I thought the politech folks would have a barrel of laughs over the comments of Jamie Kellner, the CEO of Turner Broadcasting (a subsidiary of the much-beloved AOL). Apparently, in an interview with CableWorld, Kellner, in response to a question about why personal video recorders were bad for the industry, 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. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming. This is from an article in 2600 magazine, found here: http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1113 The text of the interview can be found here: http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=CableWorld&pf_ID=7A2ACA71-FAAD-41FC-A100-0B8A11C30373 Regards, Sam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------