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Last month, Senator John McCain stated his opposition to this bill, and specifically cited the anti-commercial skipping feature: "Americans have been recording TV shows and fast-forwarding through commercials for 30 years," he said. "Do we really expect to throw people in jail in 2004 for behavior they've been engaged in for more than a quarter century?"
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This is the kind of arguement I would find myself making. Besides, Advertisers are only paying for a time spot when it actually appears on television, not 5 months afterwards when we're watching a recorded version of the show. If we missed the commercial the FIRST time it went on TV (being that we're taping this and probably not home,) why on earth would they care if we fast-forwarded through the spot while watching it sometime later?
Besides, how on earth could anyone enforce this ridiculously silly act? Cops showing up at people's house at random, trying to catch people fast-forwarding through commercials of taped television shows?
The whole thing is just about as absurd as any other bill trying to be passed in Congress to help try to support some entertainment industry or another.