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I guess, it's actually like renting a digital copy (since most of the time it will be served through cache, right?), just you aren't able to serve more copies a
by xentronium 16y ago
I guess, it's actually like renting a digital copy (since most of the time it will be served through cache, right?), just you aren't able to serve more copies at the same time than you legally possess.
That's smart.
- A1kmm 16y agoI think if they had to argue it in court, they will present the cache as an irrelevant technical detail, just like how fleeting copies of frames from a DVD are stored in buffers and decoded when playing the DVD on a traditional player. The Doctrine of First Sale allows people to rent out DVDs, and people in lawful possession of a physical object like a DVD to watch them (but not make a copy); if the transient data stored in DVD players for the purposes of decoding and playing a DVD don't count as copies. US law explicitly gives the copyright owner exclusive rights to authorise who can "display the copyrighted work publicly" - but if it is only going out to one person, I suspect that they might not be able to prevent it.