![]() ![]() The Betamax case would appear (as The Consumerist notes) to buttress services like PlayOn, a so-called “streaming DVR” app that lets you record video streams from the likes of Netflix and Hulu. Then again, there’s the so-called “Betamax case,” a Supreme Court decision from the 1980s that paved the way for legal “time-shifting” of copyrighted broadcast shows with VCRs. There are “fair use” exceptions to the DMCA for non-commercial research, criticism, commentary, and the like, but it’s hard to imagine that downloading (for example) an entire movie would fly, particularly if you never paid for it. ![]() First and foremost is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, which states that “circumventing a technology measure” to “gain access” to a copyrighted work is illegal.
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