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The "Next Big Thing" for TV?
New technology to force you to watch ads by disabling the controls.
The apparatus (270) and method comprises an advertisement controller (270) in a video playback device (150) that (1) prevents a viewer of a direct (non-recorded) broadcast from switching channels when an advertisement is displayed, and (2) prevents a viewer of a recorded program from fast forwarding the recorded program in order to skip past advertisements that were recorded with the program.
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9011-invention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html
I suggest we pay off the national debt by finding the asshats that came up with this and charge $5 a whack to beat them senseless.
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