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Not that I support this in any way, but I can't quite comprehend the technical ignorance in legal circles that has lead them to distinguish between streaming an
by 5l 15y ago
Not that I support this in any way, but I can't quite comprehend the technical ignorance in legal circles that has lead them to distinguish between streaming and downloading in the first place.
- anigbrowl 15y agoThe definition of downloading was written into law before streaming became widespread; likely, when the former was used to prosecute someone for streaming copyrighted material, the defense pointed out the inadequacy of the existing definition. There's a distinction in law between downloading in the sense of saving something to your hard disk and just having it in RAM. Obviously, if I go to your website and see something on my screen, I have 'downloaded' in some fashion, but if just passing through memory was considered a download then running a program or opening a file would be considered equivalent to making a copy.