• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    18 hours 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”.

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      16 hours 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?

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        3 hours 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.