• Lovable Sidekick
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    14 days ago

    Some industry people are amazingly entitled about your obligation to participate in their business model. Jack Valenti, a former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, once literally called muting commercials or leaving the room during them “theft of programming”.

    • @LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz
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      714 days ago

      So im assuming a bunch of people are filming themselves walking out of a room with commercials playing and sending it to him with a big FU in the subject line?

      • Lovable Sidekick
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        213 days ago

        Well probably not, since he’s been dead almost 20 years. He made his statement during the Napster era, when copyright was more in the news.