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Originally Posted by kenny
And what does this has to do with the torrent seeding grey area?
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seeding content you bought is a backup
backup is a fair use right
fair use is defined in the copyright act
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Either you're sugar coating it or you some how actually believe this.
I can guarantee that out of all those people ripping off photoshop we'd be lucky to find one downloading it as a backup.
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well the seeder would be using the backup fair use
the downloader would be using the recovery fair use
but i am going to assume that you ment recovery when you said back up
but since you can identify, track down and procecute every one of those other people (everyone but the one you could find-- i think the number would be greater than 1)
you don't need to take away the technology from those who legitimately using it in a fair use way. That the point i am making.
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But at the very least its legal for me to download every superbowl since I've been alive, right? I mean I've always had those channels.
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as long as you can prove you paid for it, sure why not. Remember that fair use is an affirmative defence (at least it was until the lenz vs universal) so you better have proof that you bought a right to view that airing.
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I can even gift them to my friends being that everybody has access to the superbowl?? Right? The NFL knows I've already paid the price of watching the commecials being aired during play.
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depends are you giving them the entire file or just small non working pieces that they would have to trade with their other friends to recover a full working copy. (no actual infringement)
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can you prove that all your friends you gave it to bought such a right to view (actually had tv at the time it originally aired) it not that hard when it was last weeks episode of lost but it may be a lot harder if it was omething from 20 years ago.