In my last Tangled Webs I wrote about pending US legislation to rewrite copyright law and eliminate almost all consumer rights and protections. These bills have now been rolled into a single bill HR2391, and the Senate may be voting on it soon.

The bill contains all the outrageous provisions mentioned in my article and a brand new one. If it passes, it will be illegal for DVD Players or computers to permit you to skip or fast-forward through the commercials at the start of the DVDs.

If I were writing fiction, my editors would claim this is too far fetched and readers would not believe Congress would do such a thing. Soon we may no longer have the right to skip over a commercial.

I’m not sure what comes next.

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