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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: "Hardware: Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 18, @07:28PM
from the pure-evil dept.
An anonymous reader writes 'According to New Scientist, Philips has filed a patent for technology to force viewers to watch the ads in a program. Basically they plan to add extra flags to the Multimedia Home Platform that would stop controls from working until the ads are finished.' From the article: 'Philips' patent acknowledges that this may be 'greatly resented by viewers' who could initially think their equipment has gone wrong. So it suggests the new system could throw up a warning on screen when it is enforcing advert viewing. The patent also suggests that the system could offer viewers the chance to pay a fee interactively to go back to skipping adverts.' "