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Top Ten New Copyright Crimes
anon writes: "Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting (an AOL Time Warner company), was recently interviewed on the future of television. In the interview, Mr. Kellner said some very interesting things, including characterizing those who skip television commercials as thieves.' To help develop Mr. Kellner's unfortunately common (at least in Hollywood) view of copyright, LawMeme offers the top ten new copyright crimes, as well as further choice quotes and commentary from Mr. Kellner's interview."
#11 - Averting your eyes from roadside billboards long enough to watch where you're going.
#12 - Being Blind or Deaf...
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/03/11 42220.
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Just as I said earlier.
My mistake, though, I guess he figures it's OK if you can go to the bathroom in 30 seconds.
Why is he this tolerant? Maybe going to the bathroom counts as a sufficiently similar experience to enduring commercials.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
This article is a dupe from late last week....
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...because we were told some of you did not look at the ads shown with the story the first time.
What he said is true, though. Each page you hit costs them a small amount in bandwidth and CPU time. Note that he didn't say "If you block ads, you're a thief" or "If you block ads, you're stealing our content" or "It's part of the contract between us and you that you read and click on our ads." What he said was completely correct, and in the midst of a plea to support them by other means than advertising.
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More public exposure for Mr. Kellner's ideas would be most helpful. As the previous story mentioned, he is our "friend" due to his downright draconian opinions. Any guesses on how long it will take Copyleft or Thinkgeek to do something like this? I know 2600 used to have an anti-Jack-Valenti shirt.
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Also: There is an anti-Kellner Open Directory Section. It seems rather sparse though. http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Networks/WB/A
The sites mention the cancelation of the Animaniacs, but nothing too serious.
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The one that says PBS is unfair because of competition is a non-sequitor. It has nothing to do with ad views. It looks to me as if the folks who wrote the story are trying to slip some pro-PBS ideology into a story that would otherwise appeal to Libertarians. Comments?
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