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20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television
Macki writes "As previously mentioned, the Broadcast Flag is back before congress. There are 20 law makers currently supporting the bill. The insane thing about it is the fact that no one supports the bill except a handful of entertainment companies. Probably not even the employees of the entertainment companies. It's bad enough they want to break our televisions, but the way that they are subverting democracy is just astounding. Danny O'Brien at the EFF has done a spectacular job deconstructingthe MPAA/RIAA's efforts to ramrod this through, and more importantly, the motivations of the members of congress who are helping them."
to me tv is crap anyway - I only use it to watch news and sports anything else is crap -
So in the US the right to live only applies to US citicens?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Read the f***ing articles, Follow the F***ing links, you will find your list.
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1) Go to Wal-mart (or if you're still drinking your anti-consumerist kool-aid, then go to "your local store" and pay more).
2) Go to the place where the DVDs are.
3) Notice that they sell full seasons of TV series for $50 or so.
4) Watch. With no commericals!
I think we have already established that is the case with that off shore prison/torture facility the US has built for non US citizens with no rights.
If Congress doesn't deliver a Broadcast Flag pronto, warns the letter, content producers will abandon free, over-the-air broadcast TV.
Isn't NTSC broadcasting, that is to say, free over-the-air TV, scheduled to end on New Year's Eve 2006 anyway?
This is great opportunity for the TV industry to wave their nuts.
If the absurd bill doesn't pass, they just let the NTSC broadcasts shut down (as they have been scheduled to do for the past ten years) and claim that they shut it all down because Congress ignored their threats.
If the stupid law passes, they claim that it happened because they united together as an industry and made serious threats to shut down free over-the-air broadcasting.
Meanwhile they don't notice that anyone with an IQ over 95 is watching much television anymore. They're hustling hundreds of millions of dollars in advertisement revenues from companies trying to sell junk to people who can't afford it because they all have near-minimum wage jobs.
The last time that I watched television there were something like five commercials for SUVs in a row. Anyone who hasn't bought an SUV by now isn't going to run out and do so at midnight after having put up with five obnoxious commercials for these idiot machines.
Television sucks. It doesn't matter what the program is or the actors or the writers or whether it's on broadcast or cable. If it's on television, it sucks. It's simply the fundamental nature of the medium. It will never get better or change, because it can't. Leave it to the losers.