{"id":74,"date":"2005-07-18T19:52:46","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2005-07-20T01:09:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T09:09:37","slug":"japan-bans-tivo-tm-ad-skipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/japan-bans-tivo-tm-ad-skipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan bans Tivo &#8482; ad skipping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a story on a blog that Japanese advertisers &#8212; worried about the effects of Tivo on their TV commercials &#8212; have influenced the Japanese government to ban fast forwarding through  commercials.  Read  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2061-10802_3-5790230.html\">the details<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, skipping commercials is a violation of Japanese copyright law. (Washington, are you listening?)<\/p>\n<p>I personally find I am more aware of the products being advertised when I  fast forward.  I watch the screen intently to catch the resumption of the program. (Not that I am aware of the commercial content, just the advertiser.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a story on a blog that Japanese advertisers &#8212; worried about the effects of Tivo on their TV commercials &#8212; have influenced the Japanese government to ban fast forwarding through commercials. Read the details for yourself. Apparently, skipping commercials is a violation of Japanese copyright law. (Washington, are you listening?) I personally find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}