At 12:55 PM -0700 11/1/2010, Al Poulin wrote:
I download an article as legally authorized. I cannot legally store it electronically.
If they licensed the copy to you (by explicitly permitting the download) then you CAN legally keep it.
immediately and before I can delete it, Time Machine puts it away. [snip] So how does the written law get interpreted today?
Yea, the exact status of the backup copy is untested in court, as far as I know.
And therein lies the rub over much of the DMCA. So much of it is draconian BS. Those terms survive because they haven't been tested and the average consumer hasn't got the means, legal or financial, to do so.
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