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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Skip a commercial? There's a new Microsoft charge
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Sat Mar 17 12:47:56 2012
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Skip a commercial? There's a new Microsoft charge for that!
http://j.mp/wc0PDb (GeekWire)
"How much would you pay to watch a replay of a great play, or skip a
bunch of television commercials? And should you have to? Those are a
couple of the questions raised by a newly surfaced Microsoft patent
application. It's called "Control-based Content Pricing," and the
basic idea is dynamic pricing of video content, based on the
preferences of the user at any given moment - essentially setting
different prices for different functions of the TV remote."
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