By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026As important as the VCR was as a device - creating the home video market, which begat DVDs, then streaming - the *Betamax* decision is even *more* important. 5/ 12345 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026You see, copyright is a "fact-intensive" doctrine, which means that determining whether a use is or isn't a copyright violation can be a complex and expensive process of gathering facts, weighing conflicting expert views to arrive at a judgment. 6/ 12128 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026If the rule was that new technologies couldn't be introduced unless you could prove that they would *never* infringe copyright, we wouldn't have *any* digital technology. Indeed, most technologies would be illegal under that standard. 7/ 123810 0
