[zaarn]

>Regulating length of ads is silly too.

It's not really. The limited amount of adspace, about 10 minutes full screen and 4 or 5 minutes side, some banners, have greatly increased the value of ads on TV.

More expensive ads also means the ads are of much higher quality and less annoying than the US ads.

Buying the content is of course always an option but this is largely form an era before buying content was even an option or required extremely expensive VHS players.

[feocco]

If we lived in a world where cable was the primary form of media consumption, I wouldn't think ad regulation was silly.

Like you said, we live in a new era. I think the idea of that regulation feels antiquated with the near unlimited choices now.

Regardless, this is off topic. My extreme tl;dr - keep lawmakers grubby paws off my video games!