On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 12:03 AM Aaron Liu <aaronliu0130@gmail.com> wrote:
How do "home backups" fall under fair-use? How can you maintain plausible deniability when there's an entire AUR request IRC discussion and mailing list chain about it?
Discs don't last forever. How do home backups *not* fall under fair use?
I read the plausible deniability comment as a criticism of the attitude that led to the IRC / list discussion being started in the first place. On 2023/9/26 20:32, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 9/26/23 13:11, netsysfire@das-labor.org wrote:
There are two reasons for the deletion: 1. Legality of home backups. Though we have stuff like popcorntime in the AUR or even whipper in extra, so it should not matter.
Fair-use prevails.
2. Bad licensing.
Plausible deniability