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immibis2yesterday at 1:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

No, this is where programmers rules-lawyer in ways that actual lawyers don't and then get law stuff hilariously wrong. No judge thinks that viewing an HTML page is downloading it, because downloading means saving a copy to your computer, not just looking at it. Even having an internet cache folder doesn't count as downloading. Even copying the file from the internet cache folder to somewhere might not count as downloading, although it'd still be a copy.

Same as when LG said their TVs don't record you and then Hacker News said "how can they detect voice commands if they don't record your voice"... facepalm.


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conceptionyesterday at 11:47 PM

I think its more than the law doesn’t understand the technology.

27183yesterday at 1:33 PM

I don't pretend to understand law, mostly it just doesn't make sense at all.

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