MPA Renews Push for Site Blocking Laws in the US

Originally published at: MPA Renews Push for Site Blocking Laws in the US

The Motion Picture Association just used World IP Day to make its loudest public case yet for U.S. site-blocking legislation, with live sports piracy as the wedge. In a recent article, MPA Global General Counsel Karyn Temple argues that more than 55 countries already have judicial site-blocking regimes, and the U.S. is overdue for one…

Bad enough so much is behind a pay wall but what infuriates me is to pay for something then be forced to put up with repeated ad nauseam commercials infested with so much social engineering.

Quality products don’t need such advertising but garbage products sure do.

Very irritated to pay twice this year for F1 Racing {official F1 App notified me on the very first race it was not available in the USA but they accepted my payment} then to find on the awful Apple TV app I had to subscribe to for F1 that it had commercials. Last year I’m doing that. I’ll watch Underwater Basket weaving before I’ll pay to watch commercials. Run a commercial and I guarantee I won’t buy your product.