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
>