Slashdot on iCraveTV Television & Movies5/2/2000; 11:34:39 PM Feb 29, 2000: iCraveTV update: An interesting post at Slashdot emerged, claiming to be from "a media consultant for a major American network." "Anyway, the problem with iCrave was that they didn't make it easy enough to remove their advertising banners. If they had had a button to turn them off then we would have had no case because then they wouldn't have forced anyone to view their added material."If he's for real, that's exactly what I was objecting to as well. Adding the advertising on top of it was what this was about, not the re-broadcasting per se. Communication modification.Also, note the cluelessness exhibited by the responders (in true Slashdot fashion): "Does this mean NBC be suing [sic] SONY soon because it's not easy to remove that 'SONY' logo on my TV and remote? The SONY logo isn't inside the TV frame, but then, neither were iCrave's banners..." It's amazing how many people seriously believe that "bound together on a single web site" and "in one person's field of vision" are semantically identical relationships... I suppose this person believes his TV remote to be an integral part of the TV signal. (Another failed argument-by-metaphor... I've really gotta write that one up for this site.)