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Old 05-28-2011, 06:53 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Redrob View Post
As I recall, the intellectual property laws were in place long before the Internet so where is the redefining happening?

Seems to me that the thieves are trying to do all the redefining.
how about trying reverse the timeshifting ruling that allows me to get a commercial free timeshifted version from the swarm

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Indeed, when my son is taping for his permanent collection, he sits there and pauses his machine and when he is finished with it, he has a marvelous Clint Eastwood movie and there is no sign of a commercial.

or arguing that timeshifting never allowed distribution (to justify disallowing using torrents as a vcr)

even though mpaa failed to get tape locking (preventing a recording from playing in any vcr that didn't record the content)

a failure which clearly proves that distribution (lending a copy of the show to someone else who missed it) was covered by the original right.


and don't get me started on commentary, backup, recover.
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