SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT v PAUL OWEN & ORS

[Alan Braggins]

> From: Philip Rowlands <phr@doc.ic.ac.uk>

> You do own the media. You don't own the software on the media. You own
> a license to use the software. Without a license, it would be illegal to
> copy it to your hard disk, RAM or CPU instruction pipeline.
> 
> This is moot for music CDs, as no copying is performed in the normal
> "use" of the content (well, not to any fixed form).

But using a computer game that runs from the CD and isn't installed
onto a hard disk doesn't do any copying to a fixed form either.
(There are audio CD players which buffer the music in RAM.
e.g. http://www.meridian-audio.com/m_bro_cd.htm "For all formats the
data is read asynchronously in blocks using a high-speed DVD ROM
drive, checked for integrity then triple-buffered through memory
to ensure output timing is completely independent of disc replay
mechanics.")

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