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Right. This is the money sentence: > Indeed, copyright infringement is so prevalent within the Projects that infringement plainly is their predominant use and
by jamesaguilar 12y ago
Right. This is the money sentence:
> Indeed, copyright infringement is so prevalent within the Projects that infringement plainly is their predominant use and purpose.
"Predominant use and purpose" is one of the tests for whether software is copyright-infringing under DMCA. IANAL but this looks pretty open-and-shut to me.
- Fuzzwah 12y agoYou're on the money here. Of course "predominant use and purpose" eventually boils down to "I know it when I see it" [1] 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
- jamesaguilar 12y agoNot necessarily. You could certainly have some quantifiable metric. For example, you could draw the line at, say, 80% of the works on offer. In this case, that wouldn't be necessary. There may be a fine line somewhere where you could argue that a piece of software does or does not have infringement as its primary purpose. PopcornTime is not close to that line.