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Re: [dvd-discuss] Skipping commercials is theft.



From: <microlenz@earthlink.net>

> A Clockwork Orange - 21st Century Style
> 
> OTOH...consider your Fee for Pee...if there is the twinkie defense then SURELY 
> there must be the "Bud made me do it" defense against non performance of the 
> contract....OK maybe a better phrase would be "Call of Nature" defense...I mean 
> there's already the "Act of God"

Landmark cases in copyright law:

1984 - Betamax, ruling that "time shifting" is fair use.
200x - Incontinent Consumers vs MPAA, ruling that 'call of nature' is a force
majeure.

-- 
LarsG