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Originally Posted by Giggleton
We aren't talking about the transitory nature of legislation. We are talking about the natural right of creative compensation. By skipping commercials you are basically stealing from the creator. Yes, the creator has given you the work for free in the hopes that you will watch the commercials and possibly purchase what is being advertised, but nothing is really free. If no one watched the commercials, what would happen??
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I understand that, and there may be something that needs to be done, although I'm not sure how you would enforce it. The only point I am making is that it is not piracy, or more precisely copyright infringement, to skip commercials. It may be something else, but it is not copyright infringement.
It is certainly a violation of the social contract that the content is free in exchange for watching the commercials, but that has absolutely no bearing in law.
There is no natural right of creative compensation. You have a right to be creative. You have a right to attempt to monetize your creative effort. You have no guaranteed right of compensation, compensation is the reward for producing something that is good and the public/customer wants.
If no one watched commercials... well, there were no commercials in the episode of Game of Thrones I watched on HBO the other day. There are no commercials in most books I read. I could see TV/video going to a pay-to-view model rather than a watch commercials to view model. People would probably tend to be more discriminating in what they watch, which would reduce the amount of crap produced...hopefully.