Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

[Doug Mentohl]

amicus_curious wrote:

> .. The issue at bar is the harm to the copyright holder and if he is willing to 
> accept the result of one mechanism, i.e. the redistribution of the downloaded 
> and authorized  copy, there can be no harm found to be associated with some 
> other  mechanism that results in exactly the same condition.

What are the legal differences in a) downloading directly to a DVD 
and/or b) downloading to the hard drive and then copying to a DVD. 
Please quote all relevant legislation in any jurisdiction..