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Originally Posted by lestatar
You go to your local library and BORROW Opeth's new album or King's new book and you are NOT legally entitled to scan/format shift anything. You didn't BUY it.
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You want to watch the end of a sports game on your TV. You didn't buy it. You tuned into it without owning any part of it--but you do have the right to copy it, format shift it so you can watch it later. This was upheld as a legal use of VCRs, and one of the reasons they were allowed to be sold. Time- and format-shifting was ruled to be fair use.
How is that different from "I borrowed a book for two weeks and scanned it so I could read it later, when I had more time?"