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Originally Posted by Redrob
You made my point for me that the thieves are redefining the copyright laws.
What is thieving today may be legit tomorrow at the copyright holder's expense.
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what the fuck are you talking about
when the vcr first established the right of timeshifting
it include the right to make a commercial free "permanent collection" (see quote from the vcr debates in congress)
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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.
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yet if i use the swarm as the medium for that "permanent collection" copyright holders are arguing that infringing.
that clearly trying to reverse a right i have already been grant
to try and make the new technology (torrents) inferior to the old technology (Betamax).