Err... I think we're talking about two different things here.
I
currently pay for my sattelite subscription. No DVR type of device. When I do
watch TV - and it's gotten to the point it's been so long since I did that I'm
considering dropping my subscription - I do "just watch the program". When a
commercial comes on, I go do something else and completely ignore the
commercial. With regards the stations that have gone "more commercial" I no
longer visit them. For example, there's one in particular that the last time I
watched a two hour movie, it was cut down to an hour and a half and fit into a 3
hour time slot. Yes... 1.5 hours of movie, 1.5 hours of
commercials.
Now... in the context of me choosing to watch the entire
program without paying any attention whatsoever to the commercial...
How
does your argument regarding fair use fall into the picture?
Is it not fair
for me to choose not to pay attention to the commercials? Or do you feel that
by completely ignoring commercials I am breaking the Law?
And if you do
feel that... considering I buy lots of tv series on Blu Ray - and I'll add
there's no commercials in the slightest - and have turned to that for the bulk
of my "tv viewing experience"... perhaps you can explain how that is breaking
the Law.
Now that's a new argument I haven't heard yet:
If you drop
all cable/sattelite subscriptions and only get your "tv" through the blu ray
series' you purchase, you're breaking the Law because you're avoiding 100% of
the commercials.
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