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Originally Posted by spiderplant
Section 70 allows you to record a broadcast, as defined in section 6. Which is what your TiVo does. But a recording on your TiVo is not a broadcast, so you can not copy it again.
To do so would be an infringement as defined in section 17.
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I see where you're coming from on this but I want to move it, not copy it. The law makes no reference at all to moving it, only copying it. There will still be a single copy for me to watch at a later time. I would say your conclusion of infringement is tenuous at best here. Next you'll be saying that SMART technology which is making copies of data as bad sectors die is violating copyright! But thanks for being the only person to make any attempt at a viable argument here, it's definitely worthy of consideration. In cases where the law is lacking, the judge will extrapolate from the spirit of the law. In this case the law intends for us to be able to make and keep a copy (multiple if we record on multiple devices) of a public broadcast to view at a later date and I would be complying with this so I think that moving the recording from the Tivo to a NAS would be in keeping with the spirit of the law. Until a prosecution in this regard is brought (which I think we can all agree it won't be), we will never know.
I think an important factor that we are all overlooking is that the law makes no distinction between SD and HD. HDD Video recorder combos have been around a long time with no copy protection. These can be no more illegal than HDFury surely.