"Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> writes: > "Time shifting" is legal fair use, as determined in the famous Betamax court > case (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting). > So if you pay for cable TV, you're free to record anything, and watch it > any time later on any device.
OK, let's accept that as a working legal hypothesis. > Now, Bittorrent lets you pretend you *did* record everything that ever > aired. Pretend you invented the Internet 20 years ago, with the sole > purpose of recording for you - on other people's hard disks - every > program that ever aired. Just because you ran out of Betamax tapes. Eh, I think that the problem is copying/sharing. You can record a 10 year old Dr. Who but you cannot give out copies of the recording to others. Even if they have had cable TV for 20 yars and *could* have recorded Dr. Who 10 years ago themselves, but didn't. What am I missing in your theory? IANAL, etc., etc. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
