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June 11, 2003

Commercial skipping is piracy?. Don't buy ReplayTV. They are stripping the ad skipping feature in new digital television recorder models because the copyright cartel doesn't understand copyright law or fair use and they are scared of controversy. [ReplayTV strips ad skipping in new DVR models]

Let's see what Professor L. Ray Patterson has to say on this issue: "The competitor uses the copyright; the consumer uses the work. The copyright owner, by reason of the Copyright Act and the copyright clause, has not only no right to interfere, but a duty not to interfere with the consumer's use of a publicly disseminated work." [TechLawAdvisor.com]
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