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Originally Posted by rryles
Section 28A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 was added in 2003 by Statutory Instrument 2498 as follows:
From here: http://tinyurl.com/58cwyw
I leave the interpretation to the reader  |
A good find.
My understanding is that that amendment ensured that there were no copyright infringement claims against the network for the caches made during the transmission of data. If BT are claiming this as their defence, does it mean that they are replacing the cache they used for earlier delivery systems [a layer 2 or 3 switch?] with the Layer 7 switch?
A conflict of interest?
(For the non techies. The cache is a copy of data packets between host server and the user browser and is necessary for efficient delivery of web content. As not the whole content of a site can be sent within one packet, copies of the packets are made by the system so that if there is corruption / dropping of one of the packets, that packet can be resent rather than having to re-request everything from the host server. You will see the effect of the delivery of different packets in the way in which your browser will sometimes redraw the screen as content and images are downloaded.)