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"Cloud DVRs are OK but only if the kernel, filesystem, and hardware take great pains to ensure separate physical storage locations for and no compression on each customer-created copy" is absurd and no judge is going to go for that.

Reminds me of Aereo, the company that rented remote antennas to customers so that they can stream over the Internet what their antennas captured. Supreme court decided that they were violating copyright law [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/supreme-court-pu...

To put it in other terms it didn't fall, it was slammed to the ground.

I just noticed that Aereo was already part of the discussion.

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