[Cdn-DMCA] CNN: we have a contract to watch commercials...

[Russell McOrmond]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Chris Palmer wrote:

> The CEO of Turner broadcasting (CNN etc) believes that we have a contract to
> watch commercials, we shouldn't even go to the bathroom!! It is  theft to
> skip commercials!!


  This is ludicrous.

  If advertising is a contract for an exchange of services, then it should
work both ways.  I should be able to look at a billboard sign, and if I
don't get any 'services' out of that, I should be able to sue them for
breach of contract.


  These laws are just plain stupid: biased in favor of the extreme monied
special interests who have been lobbying government for these handouts.


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