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Offline FluffyMcDeathTopic starter

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Fast Forward to Jail
« on: November 22, 2004, 06:13:52 PM »
There was a thread in Politics talking about the evil UK government preventing good and honest corporations from advertising bad food to children.

It turns out that in the US they are far more enlightened. In that country they recognize the value of protecting advertisers not a bunch of silly citizens.

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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2004, 06:21:10 PM »
But surely that's unenforcable?

Or are they going to offer cash rewards to kids for shopping their parents to the authorities? :lol:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2004, 06:30:37 PM »
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Cyberus wrote:
But surely that's unenforcable?

Or are they going to offer cash rewards to kids for shopping their parents to the authorities? :lol:


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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2004, 06:34:02 PM »
Next they come up with that I as a consumer have "stolen" copyrighted material because I skipped an ad!
Heh, next they come up with that I as a consumer have "stolen" copyrighted material because I usually have my tv set turned off and I miss all those precious tv ads!

btw. they can't even deal with something obviously illegal as piracy.
pff, bunch of losers.
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2004, 07:37:04 PM »
And this one:
If you cave in to your childrens demands to avoid looking at  the daily dose of a hour of ads mixed into the childrens programs then you are a bad parent. :lol:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2004, 09:33:27 PM »
The lobbyist are always attempting some such madness as this.  Most of it get ignored by Congress but sometimes the money is just a little too good to ignore.  Not sure how many Congressmen would care to commit political suicide in this fashion though.
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2004, 11:08:17 PM »
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But surely that's unenforcable?

Technically, I very much fear it is enforcable. Just add a few extra standardised codes to the DVD which tell the player to block all requests regarding (fast) forward for the time being. You are allowed to rewind, stop, and resume play. If you were fast-forwarding to begin with, stop and show the footage in between, and resume fast-forwaring once you've reached its end.

It's rather like the region system. Many players offered a shortcut to disable this idiocy, although I am not sure whether that is still the case.
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2004, 05:49:27 PM »
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But surely that's unenforcable?

Or are they going to offer cash rewards to kids for shopping their parents to the authorities?


Or vice versa

something like this...
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2004, 07:53:34 PM »
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2004, 07:56:53 PM »
No way !! :lol:

I can do without being force fed that rubbish.

Land of the free....... :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2004, 07:58:44 PM »
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What's this?!
Blatant advertising for piracy? :lol:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2004, 08:37:02 PM »
No communism!:lol:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2004, 10:35:56 PM »
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:lol:  :roflmao:  :laugh:
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2004, 12:49:49 AM »
Hey, maybe they can catch the offenders if they borrow one or two billion of those cameras that are trained on the citizens of the UK. :-D
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Re: Fast Forward to Jail
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2004, 12:56:14 AM »
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ROFLMAO!!!!
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