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Good point. Even adding a caching layer would turn the storage into largely write-only devices. Would adding that caching make it illegal?
by peeters 14y ago
Good point. Even adding a caching layer would turn the storage into largely write-only devices. Would adding that caching make it illegal?
- jrockway 14y agoIMHO, no. Once this ruling is through all the appeals, it's likely that they'll be able to do whatever they want. It's not like NBC can come in to your house to inspect your antenna. Similarly, it's unlikely that they'll be allowed to inspect this company's filesystem's algorithms. (Remember, disks do not write 1:1 what you tell them to write. If the disk's abstraction over the spinning magnetic platters is acceptable, I doubt the law could find a distinction when using hard links instead of identical files.)
- nitrogen 14y agoDidn't courts already find a distinction between deduplication and storing identical copies of files in the semi-recent remote DVR case?