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

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 09:36 10-03-01 -0600, "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:26:00AM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> > At 03:53 PM 3/10/01 +0100 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> > >A thought occured to me. Shouldn't we get money for the intrusion into our
> > lives
> > >called commercials?
> >
> > Ummmmm........... you already *do*.
> >
> > Its called the television program or radio program that you're watching.
> >
> > 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.


Which brings up a question to bat around:  What will happen to those people 
who find fulfillment in performing and would today become actors, if all 
the characters are computer-generated?


-- Ronn!  :)