Then in scenario #1, I'll just invite the whole town over. There, now involves thousands of people, but still legal (pray my house is big enough). There's not a setup number of people that all of a sudden makes this go from legal to illegal, so even though I understand your point, it is not valid.
To say #1 is rare: You haven't seen my mother's VHS collection. She has hundreds of tapes, each with at least 2-3 movies. Damn, she has more movies on VHS than I do on my comp. Just like the number of people question, at which point does it go from "rare" to "common", thus "legal" to "illegal". To you, taped VHS watching may be rare, but to my mother, it's common, but still legal for her.
This is a US law (or will be). However, what about servers/products in other countries. The US cannot do ANYTHING to those. So all that's needed to move the products to a non-US server, and this law will be >/dev/null.
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Then in scenario #1, I'll just invite the whole town over. There, now involves thousands of people, but still legal (pray my house is big enough). There's not a setup number of people that all of a sudden makes this go from legal to illegal, so even though I understand your point, it is not valid.
To say #1 is rare: You haven't seen my mother's VHS collection. She has hundreds of tapes, each with at least 2-3 movies. Damn, she has more movies on VHS than I do on my comp. Just like the number of people question, at which point does it go from "rare" to "common", thus "legal" to "illegal". To you, taped VHS watching may be rare, but to my mother, it's common, but still legal for her.
This is a US law (or will be). However, what about servers/products in other countries. The US cannot do ANYTHING to those. So all that's needed to move the products to a non-US server, and this law will be > /dev/null.