gideongallery |
03-13-2011 06:51 AM |
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Originally Posted by candyflip
(Post 17975672)
Say I'm on the list but I own a few actual copies of the DVD.
How would something like that play out? I typically buy my DVDs and Blurays, but keep them in the package and download copies from the web to my Media Server.
In all these torrent suits against ip addresses and not actual people that have been discussed here, I've often wondered this but have never raised the question.
And thinking that a $500 settlement for something that one can buy for $50 or less in the stores is fair is pretty entertaining in and of itself. Other's might get on board with this tactic if it wasn't such a straight out money grab.
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that an example of using a new technology to perform a old fair use (format shifting)
clueless copyright holders are trying to prevent that
i would agree to pay the $500 only if xpay agreed to pay me back $1000 for every dollar they asked for if the court recognized my actions to be fair use.
if they truely believed that the courts would NEVER grant such an extension then they would have no problem accepting hell the MP insurance of their lawyers would cover it completely.
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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
(Post 17975742)
I believe the issue with bittorrent is that you are effectively distributing the content at the same time you are downloading it, so it doesn't really matter if you own a copy yourself.... you are still making it available to others to freely download.
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re read cablevision timeshifting ruling, cacheing fair use statutes should apply
in fact given that you never give anyone a complete working copy only pieces it actually stronger.
this is another teenrevenue botch job again
with the supreme court ruling, clear examples of fair use uses (see above) and the fact that the company trying to protect their content is an "evil" pornographer this is going to turn out as bad as when teen revenue tried to argue that fair use was anti competitive.
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