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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
only under the exact same scenario.. fair use in the courts is on a case by case basis.. if you could establish your fair use is EXACTLY like another legal case THEN and ONLY then can legal precedent be used as a deciding factor.. thus your betamax excuse for theft is just a fart in the wind that only you can smell the shit..
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btw a pvr and a vcr are radically different
pvr allowed 100s of hours of content to be recorded and kept in perfect quality for months if not years
pvr allowed you to record multiple shows at the same time
they significantly advanced the commercial skipping ability of recorders
if as you say it needs to be EXACTLY the same the fact that you can timeshift two+ shows from the exact same hour would have been more than enough to drag the PVR makers back thru the court system back to the supreme court.
The precedent applied because the PVR followed the defined rules of timeshifting
moving the personal viewing of a tv show paid for /granted from day 1 to day 2.