Advertisements on Web Pages
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Wed Aug 8 13:12:04 PDT 2001
At 12:02 PM 8/8/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>Yes, we have heard here (or at a physical meeting, I forget which). I
>don't buy many DVDs, but this was discussed. Apparently the trailers and
>ads cannot be fast-forwarded through...something built into the DVD spec
>which allows this.
Probably built into the *contract* that makers of *licensed* viewers have
to sign. DVDs can do random access.
>So an ad-buster which "circumvented" this would violate the DMCA,
>presumably.
Good test case.
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