Yep, this bill is less about protecting kids than protecting Ned Flanders. Most shocked are parents, not kids. It even looks like it's more parents that can't tell virtual from real, than kids.
put the downloads on a time delay such that no show goes up until the last affiliate has screened it.
The problem with this is that Olympics only need LIVE commentaries from journalists, while TV shows need to be dubbed. For a movie to be dubbed in every single language it takes a loooooooooong time. Thus, waiting for a show to be dubbed then aired everywhere before uploading it to the WWW is too much of a waiting, especially for those from the country the show comes from (US mostly).
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Yep, this bill is less about protecting kids than protecting Ned Flanders. Most shocked are parents, not kids. It even looks like it's more parents that can't tell virtual from real, than kids.
put the downloads on a time delay such that no show goes up until the last affiliate has screened it. The problem with this is that Olympics only need LIVE commentaries from journalists, while TV shows need to be dubbed. For a movie to be dubbed in every single language it takes a loooooooooong time. Thus, waiting for a show to be dubbed then aired everywhere before uploading it to the WWW is too much of a waiting, especially for those from the country the show comes from (US mostly).