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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by pie_flavor on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:03AM (#41453972)
As in, is it somehow different when the copy that gets transmitted to the user's computer is encoded images of the pages instead of encoded text of the pages? No. You are using the word 'view' to describe receiving a copy. Again: It doesn't matter whether the UX presents it as a copy. The data factually is copied, and that's all that matters.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by codedokode on Thursday September 05, 2024 @07:14AM (#41455487)
The copy is something that "fixes" the work permanently. The device I am describing is not "fixing" anything in a tangible medium.

Replace Internet with a video cable, and the device with a CRT TV. No copy is produced in this case.

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by pie_flavor on Thursday September 05, 2024 @09:06PM (#41461877)
This is true. If the copy is only "transitory", it does not count.