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IMHO, no. Once this ruling is through all the appeals, it's likely that they'll be able to do whatever they want. It's not like NBC can come in to your house to inspect your antenna. Similarly, it's unlikely that they'll be allowed to inspect this company's filesystem's algorithms. (Remember, disks do not write 1:1 what you tell them to write. If the disk's abstraction over the spinning magnetic platters is acceptable, I doubt the law could find a distinction when using hard links instead of identical files.)



Didn't courts already find a distinction between deduplication and storing identical copies of files in the semi-recent remote DVR case?




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