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by ploxiln 3937 days ago
The main problem with that standard, focusing on copies, is that when a work isn't fixed in a physical medium (like an optical disk), everything is a copy. The internet just copies, into your system memory, onto your storage device.

(When you play a DVD, you copy it into memory. But at that moment you give it to someone else, it's the physical thing.)

This all means that the spirit and the mechanical effect of the laws are different, now that we use the internet for everything.