| Wonderful, thanks, you've just proven my case. Anyone playing the music to themselves is not playing it where 'a substantial number of persons' can hear it, nor are they projecting in such a manner. If this were the case, then anyone playing music, anywhere would be in violation, which is obviously ridiculous and no, it's not about some odd technicality of the law. It is straight up, 100% legal to play music to yourself. Given that there are millions of instances of people doing this every day, and zero cases of infringement in these scenarios, it would seem both the letter of the law, and case history quite handily demonstrate how crazy the claim is. HN threads descend into a weird distortion field when dealing with hot-button issues such as DRM, policing, NIMBYism, blockchain, privacy etc. -> Someone playing music to themselves (and not filming themselves and putting said video in public) is not infringing on anything. -> Someone filming someone else else playing music, may be infringing by virtue of the fact they are posting the content 'in public'. I don't think it's a matter of 'a difficult case to make' against a person being filed while listening to music to themselves, there is no case. The videographer, yes. Twitch / Youtubers know this as they cannot stream DRM'd music in their streams, but of course, they are directly making said music public, in which case it's a legal problem. |