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Senate's new bill may criminalize the fast forward button

Given today's news about TiVo's ads on the fast forward, I can see why they were trying to appease the content industries. Wired News has a writeup about a new crazy copyright bill that throws a bit about skipping commercials in with a ton of other new anti-P2P laws:

However, under the proposed language, viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commericals or promotional announcements "that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture," like the previews on a DVD.

So the movie industry is doing everything they can to keep people from missing their ads during films. It'd suck to see future DVD players and PVRs that had to disable FF features when a film is playing. There's nothing about it at the EFF right now, but I suspect they'll have lots to say about this soon.

by Matt Haughey November 17, 2004 in News

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