Comment The world's biggest alarm clock already exists. (Score 1) 100
I call it...the sun.
Comment Flash has *always* had enforced ad viewing (Score 5, Informative) 397
Adding DRM to off-line viewing of videos is new, but for the typical scenario of online viewing of Flash videos via a Flash player embedded in a HTML page, the ability to force ad viewing is nothing new. It's always been easy to roll a Flash video play that doesn't allow skipping or scrubbing through the video ad, but then enables that feature once the main video begins. Many sites that feature Flash video do exactly that.
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