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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Suggestions for a new term welcome. I'd prefer it not to be a term for an existing crime — so not piracy or bootlegging.
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I like the idea of "innocent infringement." This covers a huge gamut of things that could, in the strict, legal sense, be considered "copyright infringement" but any reasonable person would balk at such an interpretation.
From the aforementioned DRM stripping to correct layout issues or promote iner-operability to accidentally purchasing non-licensed musical content (allofmp3.com anybody?). These are things that I think most people would say "what's wrong with that?" but the courts have, on occasion, disagreed.
To me I'm "innocently infringing" by allowing myself to have protected PDFs
and EPUBs on my Sony Reader at the same time. I'm "innocently infringing" by keeping DRM-stripped backups from my TiVo. Heck, I'm "innocently infringing" by occasionally playing my music loud enough for others to hear! Or leaving music files (even watermarked, purchased files!) in a directory that is potentially open to someone savvy enough to get at them.