http://osakanyc.com/2005/07/20/ad-skipping-illegal-in-japan Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:53:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://osakanyc.com/2005/07/20/ad-skipping-illegal-in-japan#comment-36 Durf Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:19:27 +0000 /?p=241#comment-36 I searched news.google.co.jp for info on "???????" and got a lot of articles on reports focusing on HDD recorders and ad-skipping. The networks are whining about people refusing to watch the ads that pay for the shows, but there are no news stories out there now that talk about legislation preventing this from happening . . . If anything it would have been a story years ago when the electronics makers started coming out with VCRs that could do the same sort of filtering (since shows are stereo and ads are generally monaural, or at least they were back then). I searched news.google.co.jp for info on “???????” and got a lot of articles on reports focusing on HDD recorders and ad-skipping. The networks are whining about people refusing to watch the ads that pay for the shows, but there are no news stories out there now that talk about legislation preventing this from happening . . . If anything it would have been a story years ago when the electronics makers started coming out with VCRs that could do the same sort of filtering (since shows are stereo and ads are generally monaural, or at least they were back then).

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