Advertisements on Web Pages

[David Honig]

At 12:02 PM 8/8/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>Yes, we have heard here (or at a physical meeting, I forget which). I 
>don't buy many DVDs, but this was discussed. Apparently the trailers and 
>ads cannot be fast-forwarded through...something built into the DVD spec 
>which allows this.

Probably built into the *contract* that makers of *licensed* viewers have 
to sign.  DVDs can do random access.

>So an ad-buster which "circumvented" this would violate the DMCA, 
>presumably.

Good test case.