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> The RIAA lawyers never had to demonstrate that copying a DVD cratered the sales of their clients. Did any of the defendants raise a fair use defense based on
by dragonwriter 2y ago
> The RIAA lawyers never had to demonstrate that copying a DVD cratered the sales of their clients.
Did any of the defendants raise a fair use defense based on a transformative use that they were making of the downloaded copies? If not, you are in the domain of "unlike legal situations lead to unlike decisions" which is not exactly surprising.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoIIRC format shifting was argued to be part of fair use. I would think that taking an audio CD and ripping it into MP3 would be transformative, but I don't think the law would agree.