Tivo is Theft

[Owen Byrne]

Working at home, I tend to have the television on all day. I mostly watch
(wrong word) the VoicePrint channel
where readers read newspaper stories over the air. Occasionally I feel like
I'm totally subverting the medium.
Unfortunately it has commercials (they read them) too.

Owen

> you know.. Hollywood would accomplish a whole lot more if they just made
> telescreens mandatory in every household, in every room.  They'd even ge
> more accomplished if they teamed up with microsoft and made them
'smart' --
> following you as you move, room to room, always on when you're there.
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> That way you could shit while watching shit.
>
> And of course, they'd be able to see how many eyeballs (or assholes) they
> have at any given moment.
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> yet -another- reason not to own a zombie box.
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>
> "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
> you do it." -  Mahatma Gandhi
>
> Down with Disney, Up with Flint
> http://www.baen.com/library/
>
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-03412.html
>
> Support authors who argue for the side of reason.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Humphries" <bill@whump.com>
> To: "Owen Byrne" <owen@permafrost.net>
> Cc: "Fork@Xent.Com" <fork@xent.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Tivo is Theft
>
>
> > On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 02:54 PM, Owen Byrne wrote:
> >
> > > It was inevitable. The broadcast industry is now describing people who
> > > skip
> > > over commercials as thieves! And with new technology like HDTV and
> insane
> > > laws such as the DMCA, they may very well make it stick in the future.
> >
> > Christ on a Segway! I'm tired of hearing this line out of Hollywood.
> > Please, won't they just shut up, and start selling tv shows on demand?
> >
> > -- whump
> >
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> >
> > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
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