Re: skip commercials, was Re: Music - is fair use dead?

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 09:36 10-3-01 -0600, Erik Reuter wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:26:00AM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> > Its not like media companies can produce and broadcast these things for 
> free!
>
>True, they can't produce them for free now. But some day, I hope...when
>making a video clip becomes as easy as making a web page is today.  When
>you don't need actors and instead use realistic people rendered entirely
>by computer.

Then they'll still interrupt their shows every ten minutes for commercials: 
after all, the computers, the software and the people using that hardware 
and software still need to be paid.

And even if hardware, software and people didn't need to be paid, the media 
companies would still manage to find an excuse to annoy us with 
commercials.   :(


Jeroen

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