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Scenario 1: Your DVD player is connected to your TV with a cable. Scenario 2: A DVD player is connected to your TV via several cables (The internet). I don't

• hugh3 16y ago
  And this is why geeks make bad lawyers. "Surely," they say, "if A is allowed, and if by a set of trivial extensions we can turn A into B, then B must also be allowed". But the law looks at A and B and sees two very different things, draws a hard boundary which might not make any particular sense, and doesn't care about careful analytic arguments. Here's another copyright problem. If I have a party and screen a DVD to ten people, that's fine. If I have a party and screen a DVD to twenty people, that's fine. But if I have a party and screen a DVD to five hundred people, I'm holding a public screening and it's not allowed under the terms of my DVD license. How can this be? It just is.
  • axod 16y ago
    That's a separate issue though. Screening a single physical DVD to a party of people simultaneously is illegal. But me connecting a really long cable to a DVD player and connecting it to my TV. There's no way that can be illegal. There is no A and B in your argument. There is 'A'. Connecting a DVD player to a TV using a cable.