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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.