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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by politician on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:06PM (#29027654)
Disk caching probably invokes Flava Works vs Gunter [1] which is a case that distinguishes streaming from copying under copyright law. There are probably later updates to this, but this is the one I'm aware of.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/copyright-101-is-strea...

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Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:30PM (#29030568)
Leave it to the copyright people to make a huge legal mess out of the simplest concepts. Now people can't even cache data without lawyers showing up. I wonder how long it's gonna take before I see them arguing memcpy should be illegal.
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