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Originally Posted by gideongallery
it not, it might be considered backup, and for all those people who bought the software but misplaced the disk, it could be recover.
for people who live in a country with a piracy tax that goes towards software it may be an "accidentally" licienced distribution (see canada and the CRIA supreme court case)
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Originally Posted by gideongallery
For all the rest it would be a copyright infringement. So go and find those people and send them to jail. The fact that those people are committing a crime with the technology shouldn't stop me from using it for a legitimate purpose (timeshifting tv shows)
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and I suppose you're harmlessly seeding to others who are using the technology for the same legitimate purpose.
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Originally Posted by gideongallery
of course the product placement within the movie could represent the 3 conditions of a valid licience (offer acceptance and consideration). Which could result in another "acidental" liciencing (a la the canadian piracy tax). Although i understand no one has made that arguement yet. So for right now that would represent the scum bag attempt to use fair use to illegally justify copyright infringement.
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You mean people actually use that as an excuse? Who would of thought! But thats only about one user out of a million or something like that? Correct?
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Originally Posted by gideongallery
make sure you notify HBO that you are doing this and they can save you a cell right beside this guy. Hey maybe you can share the same cell.
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But I thought everybody downloading TV shows wasn't comitting a crime.. you know being that we almost all own televisons. You said so yourself.