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Re: [News] Big Media Resorts to Propaganda, Tries to Kill Sharing Through Legislation

Robin T Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:27:28 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you
>> to | watch their propaganda.
> 
> I really resent that. After all, I have spent good money on a legal
> product and don't expect to be given a lecture as if I were a potential
> criminal. Especially when they also deem it appropriate to invade my
> space by loading advertising on the DVD which I did not request, and
> which is playing on my equipment without them paying me a rent for
> advertising space.
> 
> Perhaps the media industry should tell us by what right they assume that
> they are entitled to use customers' equipment to play advertising that
> enriches themselves, before they presume to lecture hard-working
> customers who have paid good money for a legitimate product, only to find
> that they have been ripped off.

Hmm... wow. I agree with that. About the only recourse we have is to not
buy/rent their products and complain like hell...

Cheers.

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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)

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