Rjack wrote:
I just found that is utterly flabbergasting in its implications
Really? They read the law and applied it. Why would you find a
correctly reasoned argument to be flabbergasting? Oh, wait...
A typical PC with a GHZ clock could read segments of a computer
program into memory and execute and wipe that memory in
microseconds.
17 USC § 101 A work is “fixed” in a tangible medium of expression
when its embodiment in a copy or phonorecord, by or under the
authority of the author, is sufficiently permanent or stable to
permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated
for a period of more than transitory duration.
Just because you would like something to be a copyright violation
doesn't it make it so. Don't you tell that to GPL proponents?