Re: Barriers to an ASP loophole closure
Terry Hancock <hancock@anansispaceworks.com> writes:
> Now, what if I played it through my web server? I don't give you
> the DVD and I don't let you access the menu directly, so I am not
> distributing the work through the web, I'm just playing a video
> using some streaming video format. Now that is clearly public
> performance, isn't it? Would anyone seriously argue that fair use
> lets me do that?
It's not public performance, but that doesn't matter. It's still
illegal, because it *is* copying. "just playing using streaming" is,
actually, copying.
Thomas
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