04-03-2009, 07:10 AM
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GFY HALL OF FAME DAMMIT!!!
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: that 504
Posts: 60,840
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
It's not called 'file sharing'.
See gideongallery for his 'terminology'.... time shifting, cloud, backing up files, etc...
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I know you guys all like to pounce on this gideon guy, but timeshifting and the court cases he mentions (Sony) are legit, backed by landmark decisions on the legal books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting
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The legality of time-shifting programming in the United States was proven by a landmark court case of Universal Studios versus Sony Corporation (Sony v. Universal), when Sony argued successfully that the advent of its Betamax video recorder in 1976 did not violate the copyright of the owners of shows which it recorded.
In 1979, Universal sued Sony, claiming its timed recording capability amounted to "copyright infringement". However, a district court found that noncommercial home use recording was considered fair use and ruled in favor of Sony. In appeals, the United States Court of Appeals reversed this decision in 1981 giving the edge to Universal, but the Supreme Court of the United States reversed it yet again in 1984, and found in favor of Sony 5-4. The majority decision held that time shifting was a fair use, represented no substantial harm to the copyright holder, and would not contribute to a diminished marketplace for its product. Today, this is widely referred to as the "Betamax case" or "Betamax decision".
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