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Do they? I'm fairly certain they don't. Otherwise everyone would just be torrenting and stripping commercials.
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Do they? I'm fairly certain they don't. Otherwise everyone would just be torrenting and stripping commercials.
- catach 8y agoSure, as a broad absolutist statement there's plenty of practical, legal, metaphysical holes you could poke in it. Not aware of any anti-user-made RSS laws, though.
- evrydayhustling 8y agoTorrenting is illegal because you (generally) weren't authorized to make a copy. Stripping commercials isn't because you're removing something, or changing the way you read it. There might be some legal case if you have to make another copy of media in order to alter your consumption, but thank God I'm aware of no case attempting to control your personal use of media. (DMCA doesn't count, it's about circumventing things that prevent you from copying, not change your consumption.)
- Izkata 8y agoJust to this point, an example: My parents' VCR had a built-in feature that would automatically fast-forward through commercials when playing back something that it recorded.