[mythtv-users] OT Superbowl and Direct TV, 2 separate items.

[Brian Wood]

MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
> First I would like to apologize.  When I sent the request I didn't even 
> think of the legal ramifications.  I made a stupid mistake by asking, I 
> apologize for that.  I'll leave it at that.

It's ironic. The goal of advertisements is to reach as many people as 
possible. The cost of airtime depends on how many viewers can be 
delivered. Viewers are everything.

Then, when somebody thinks about doing something that would get the 
advertiser MORE viewers, at absolutely no cost, they are threatened with 
legal action.

It seems to me that if you blast something out of hundreds of 
terrestrial antennas at a combined total of gigawatts, plus send it all 
over the globe via multiple satellite links, you really don't have a 
right to complain if somebody duplicates it.

But then that would make sense.

beww