FabSwingers.com forum: Piracy is legal..... kinda

By *hyllyphylly OP Man
over a year ago

Bradford

A while ago, I wondered if watching streaming movies or tv programs were illegal.

Well according to the Court of Justice of the European Union, it's legal.... as long as you don't make a permanent copy of it, but watching it is ok.

Here's legal speak.....

Article 5 of Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society must be interpreted as meaning that the copies on the user's computer screen and the copies in the internet 'cache' of that computer's hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfy the conditions that those copies must be temporary, that they must be transient or incidental in nature and that they must constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, as well as the conditions laid down in Article 5(5) of that directive, and that they may therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.

By *ig1gaz1Man
over a year ago

bradford

you can also make a copy as long as you own the original if you want to save your original disk from being scratched

this includes making a digital copy even in a different format

By *ench and StripeCouple
over a year ago

Stenalees

"you can also make a copy as long as you own the original if you want to save your original disk from being scratched

this includes making a digital copy even in a different format "

Yes this is true but it is illegal to circumvent the copy protection to make that copy.