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Originally posted by towny
This has been round in so many circles I'm getting dizzy. 
Timewarrior, you need to look further than the end of your nose to understand this. Just because someone doesn't use the precise words, 'illegal downloads are great' doesn't mean that they are not suggesting that might be the case. And it is not a matter of chasing shadows or reading between the lines; it is a deliberately planned inference taargeted at gullible customers by a professional advertiser who should have known better.
It is not 'grassing' to report NTL for this. 'grassing' is a word used by criminals and schoolboys to try to intimidate others into not doing the right thing. Like it or not, there is a rule of Law in this country and there are people and organisations charged with upholding it. With the greatest of respect to all of you who oppose what I have done by reporting this to the ASA, but you do not have the right to decide whether NTL should get away with this. All I have done is report them to those who do have that right, and from now on the properly appointed people will make the decisions.
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And you need to stop reading between the freakin lines at words thast simply just are not there. I also doubt highly that you are more professional than the people designing this advertisement. therefor you are condemning NTL before ALL facts are made clear.
As for the text I have made bold.
what gives you the right to decide this warranted reporting?
Why did you need to interfere and not simply let the relevant people investigate it anyway?
Had BT made the same advertisement would you have done the same?
Are you going to stop here, or are you going to get a lynch mob arranged for every slight mistake made by EVERY company?
Then why are you victimising NTL, that sadly is what this whole episode does amount to.
I have a passionate dislike for people that insist on "interfereing" yes my choice of word, but it seems to me they just coudnt wait to get one over on NTL.
Let it be noted, None of the people reporting incidents to the ASA in relation to this advertisement speak for neither myself nor my family I/we can not and will not condone such actions.