The only thing I never will understand is, what difference does it make to the networks?
If I had set a PTAT timer or a regular timer, technically I have watched the show already by recording it. I just didn't have the TV screen in at the time. So I DID watch and it counted towards the TV quota if X-amount of people that watched that show. They have no way of telling whether I watched it live with commercials or not, or whether I skipped the commercials with my very fast trigger finger.
This whole thing is nothing but a stupid farce by little children that need to be picking and bullying one another just because.
As for me, they will never force me to watch commercials if I don't want to no matter what, even if it takes not to watch the shows at all.