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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
no its not about the individual user- its about what the carrier is required by copyright to deliver to you
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On the one hand, yes. On the other... if it's only legal to copy or display in the format it's given to you, is it copyright infringement to fast-forward past the commercials when you're watching a recorded show with your family?
Copyright infringement doesn't have a built-in exception for "home use noncommercial purposes."
I'm really not sure I buy "you're given the WHOLE PACKAGE INCLUDING COMMERCIALS and must not allow modifications to that." Especially since the owner of the *commercial's* copyright is different from the owner of the show's copyright.
Whose copyright is presumably being violated here?