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Is saving a webpage to your local harddrive copyright infringement? The data is already on your local system when you view a webpage.

• tedks 12y ago
  Copyright is a legal construct, not a technical construct. It doesn't matter where the data is. If a judge decides it's copyright infringement to save webpages, it will be. I can't imagine that the WSJ or any other paywalled institution wouldn't consider saving pages locally to be copyright infringement; how would they enforce a limit on article views?
  • idlewords 12y ago
    It doesn't matter what the WSJ thinks, it matters how the law sees this. Let's wait for one of the nice real HN lawyers to answer!
  • grkvlt 12y ago
    The same way they do now? I can't save articles if I can't view them.
    • c_c_c 12y ago
      You can view all wsj articles if you use google as referer