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“…the news is significant because it makes Flash the first enabling technology to allow entertainment providers to stream content directly to televisions.”

The Entertainment Unions have let themselves be completely fucked.

Well, I’m slightly less enthusiastic - this feels like the beginning of V-Chip V10000, where by tacit consent of just watching a program/video, you’re allowing these companies to gather unbridled access to viewing habits and demographic without the consumer knowing. In addition, this seems like the perfect opportunity to re-introduce short-lived “advancements” that TiVo offered where your entertainment system can be disabled remotely if you watch a pirated movie, or an unauthorized video on youtube, or more innocuously like the advent of DVDs that prevent you from fast forwarding through ads (and cross-referenced with Hulu and such services) this could force you to watch ads without changing channels, maybe TV pop-up ads that block 40% of your screen will become standard, even better if you’re catching some Interracial MILF ass videos during your “me time” so later when the wifey and kids are home watching The Wiggles, a pop-up suggests that based on viewing habits, they may be interested in a new release of “Phat Booty Always Swallows.”

Or maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions, but I’ve seen all of this happen before, from Facebook Beacon, from TiVo, from cable companies politically blacking out sports games and certain channels… so when giant corporations (and don’t forget for a second, Adobe is “the man”) get together and tell me about a “great new advancement,” the hair on the back of my neck starts to tingle.

Personally, I wish Adobe would focus on a fucking Flash plugin for Macs that didn’t burn 1800mb of RAM and 78% of my processor every time a go to website with with a song streaming along the bottom.

Oh, and sorry J, I didn’t mean to insinuate you were watching “Interracial MILF ass videos,” it was the royal you, the editorial.