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Downloading - not a copy?!

Downloading - not a copy?!

Posted Sep 4, 2004 13:22 UTC (Sat) by mali (guest, #4553)
In reply to: Record labels' man in Washington (News.com) by jeroen
Parent article: Record labels' man in Washington (News.com)

only talks about publishing and making copies. Downloading is neither
Errrr... if downloading an mp3 file doesn't produce a copy, then I wonder what does...


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Downloading - not a copy?!

Posted Sep 5, 2004 0:06 UTC (Sun) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

Well, this is actually an interesting point of law. When you download something, you have not
made a copy. The other guy, the person providing the service, has, perhaps, made a copy. Or
maybe he transmitted a copy to you and destroyed his, for zero net copies.

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