Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association has noticed that an awful lot of what comes out of Sora 2 "closely resembles Japanese content or images."
do we say the maker of the VCR/DVD burner/computer is at fault
There’s one difference you ignored: to copy a video with a VCR, the user needs to supply the copyrighted material. I’m sure the manufacturers would’ve been in more legal trouble if they shipped VCRs packed with pirated content.
You obviously never used a VCR to record a live broadcast before. When people were using a VCR to record things, that’s what they were doing 99% of the time. Nobody had two VCRs hooked up to each other to copy tapes. That was a super rare situation that you’d typically only find in professional studios.
Your VCR is hooked up to your TV (coaxial into the VCR and from the VCR into the TV). Just before the broadcast starts, you press the record button (which was often mechanically linked to the play button). When it’s done, you press stop. Then you rewind and can play it back later.
The end user is sort of passively recording it. The broadcast happens regardless of the user’s or the VCR’s presence.
There’s one difference you ignored: to copy a video with a VCR, the user needs to supply the copyrighted material. I’m sure the manufacturers would’ve been in more legal trouble if they shipped VCRs packed with pirated content.
You obviously never used a VCR to record a live broadcast before. When people were using a VCR to record things, that’s what they were doing 99% of the time. Nobody had two VCRs hooked up to each other to copy tapes. That was a super rare situation that you’d typically only find in professional studios.
Mate, what?
It is the end user who receives the broadcast and feeds it into the VCR, is it not?
Your VCR is hooked up to your TV (coaxial into the VCR and from the VCR into the TV). Just before the broadcast starts, you press the record button (which was often mechanically linked to the play button). When it’s done, you press stop. Then you rewind and can play it back later.
The end user is sort of passively recording it. The broadcast happens regardless of the user’s or the VCR’s presence.
Well derailed, succesfully avoided going anywhere near the actual argument.
VCRs do not contain such copyrighted material.
And you need a blank tape to copy to, the makers of which did have to pay a charge to content firms to cover piracy.
In this tortured analogy the blanks are also included in the ai firm product, so yes they would have had to pay
That “blank tape charge” was only implemented in Canada. Not the US.