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Outline is doing a transformation and then serving a copy of it, not just doing it in place with the copy that the user lawfully obtained. Aereo tried to do th
by icebraining 8y ago
Outline is doing a transformation and then serving a copy of it, not just doing it in place with the copy that the user lawfully obtained.
Aereo tried to do the same for TV broadcasting (they were claiming they didn't copy, just digitalize and transmit on behalf of the user), and the courts struck that down.
- paulgb 8y agoRight. In Aereo's case they even went as far as to nominally "rent" the colocated hardware to the user such that it was the user who was receiving the broadcast and transmitting it to themself for personal use. Which is clever, but the court ultimately decided that it doesn't work that way.
- lugg 8y agoHow is this different from what the web archive does?