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Originally Posted by ShocknAwe
Please stop with the nonsense. There's no law one way or the other yet, and some media is expressly permitted to be used in copying. Hence, we have historical precedence for it being not only allowed, but legal. Now, if automakers want to build in some sort of "protection" to prevent owners from accessing their cars software, then they are also expressly permitted under law to do so. However, the law does not say whether it is, or is not, permissable to circumnavigate said preventative protections.
Source: http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.p...online_the_law |
Yet, it didn't prevent the RIAA from filing this back in 2006:
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/r...talitz_AAP.pdf
Which they move to argue that space shifting and format shifting do not count as non-infringing uses.
And this nugget from their filing on page 22:
"Similarly, creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use, for reasons similar to those the Register canvassed in detail in her 2003 determination that back-up copying of DVDs cannot be treated as noninfringing."
So while you're right there has been historical precedence in covering fair use starting with the Sony vs Universal Studios case, I go back to what you've said; there's been no law stating one way or the other concerning personal fair use. Because there is no law codifying fair use, you have these potential games being played as demonstrated above with an actual codified law, DMCA.