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| Who else 'makes available'? At »torrentfreak.com/50-of-charges-a···-090217/ the following was said:
“so the remaining charges are simply ‘assisting making available’ ”
Sounds to me like the US Library of Congress and every university library and public library system worldwide should also be charged for making their card catalog of books, movies, music collections and their locations available to the public, whether the catalog is index cards in a drawer or searchable via the web. And lots of those collections are still in-copyright.
That too is very clearly ‘assisting making available’. Now I know where to find a copy of something to copy.
I can go to my local public library and borrow a music CD, bring it home and rip it. Ditto for a Hollywood movie DVD. My local library has banks of photocopiers available for making copies of more than a 'fair use' share or indeeed of entire copywritten books. How come my local library isn't prosecuted for 'making available'? |
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1 edit | Might as well add VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray rental stores to that list of those entities who are "assisting in making available."
While you don't see too much of the former anymore, there are quite a few people who rent, rip and return DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.
But do it too often and you might be looked at with suspicion, or be banned as a customer (Netflix is said to do this).
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1 edit | said by Doctor Four:Might as well add VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray rental stores to that list of those entities who are "assisting in making available." While you don't see too much of the former anymore, there are quite a few people who rent, rip and return DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. But do it too often and you might be looked at with suspicion, or be banned as a customer (Netflix is said to do this). How would Netfix (or BlockBuster or Hollywood Video) know that rented and returned on time VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray media was copied?
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