Slashdot | Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56″ Screen
Dear NFL,
I’ll do you one better: How about I not watch the NFL, not buy NFL merchandise, and pray for the day when your silly organization goes the way of the dodo.
NFL – Efilnikufesin.
More than you cared to know
You are a bad man, depriving those advertisers of their eyeballs. Don’t make the NFL come over there and beat you.
In the old days, TV was broadcast over the air. The air was public. The rule was that one could do whatever they wanted with it. One enterprising farmer used the energy going through his barn to power lights in it. This use was upheld in court.
I recorded the game on my TIVO. Then I scanned through it for the 1 or 2 mildly amusing ads, saw the last 2 minutes of the game and deleted the file. Ain’t technology grand?