Are you owned......

[Mark Street]

Fairly soon institutions will stop serving you and you will start serving
them.....

http://www.forbes.com/home/2002/05/03/0503sonicblue.html

 In a recent interview with the trade journal Cableworld, Jamie Kellner,
CEO of Turner Broadcasting, a unit of AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL -  news
-  people ), not only suggested that ad-skipping is "theft" but also
argued that TV viewers are under some kind of contract to watch
advertisements.

"Your contract when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots
[advertisements].... Any time you skip a commercial...you're actually
stealing the programming," Kellner is quoted as saying. He goes on to note
that "there's a certain amount of tolerance" for going to the bathroom.

Apparently Kellner has never used a VCR, or has some inflated idea about
the respect that the average TV viewer has for the sanctity of the TV
commercial. Fast-forwarding through commercials of VCR-recorded
programming is common. In fact, the technology to skip commercials on
recordings from TV has been available for years.