So I thought that American big business loved free trade and worshipped at the altar of the free market. Of course not, silly me, they can’t possibly be expected to respond to new technology with commensurate innovation. No, they go whining to our legislative overlords how the game has to be fixed so they can keep making outrageous profits from their out-of-date, inefficient practices.<\/p>\n

Phi<\/a> has written a well reasoned article on what the buggers are up to called, Timeshifting is not priracy.<\/a> All I want to do is be very, very rude to the grey suits who think they have a right to make money without any effort while at the same time telling me what I have to watch and when. <\/p>\n

Maybe I need a new moniker. Perhaps IrateWeatherGirl or SpittingMadWeatherGirl or BattleAxeWieldingWeatherGirl. Where’s a well informed legislator when you need one!<\/p>\n

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