I just made a quick glance over the Sony v. Betamax decision
(http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/sony_v_universal_d ecision.html)
and it appears that one of the major factors that lead to the decision was that it could not be proved that commerical viability/value was lost by taping shows to watch them later. If shows are being downloaded without their commercials in place of taping them with commercials, then the industry could make a fairly strong case that they have lost value due to the decreased viewership of the commercials which they make their money from.
IANAL, but I do have a gut feeling that someone does not have to be prosecuted in order for something to be illegal.
The only reason the claim to ownership is there is so that if your machine is the one that analyzes the parcel of data that reveals Gravity Waves, you can't take credit away from the Project by claiming that you discovered it. Also, that would probably make it illegal to alter the data, which would render the @home process illegal.
The same goes for client source code, if the programs were modify so that the data was analyzed differently than everyone else's, it would be useless to compare to the others.
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I just made a quick glance over the Sony v. Betamax decision (http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/sony_v_universal_d ecision.html)
and it appears that one of the major factors that lead to the decision was that it could not be proved that commerical viability/value was lost by taping shows to watch them later. If shows are being downloaded without their commercials in place of taping them with commercials, then the industry could make a fairly strong case that they have lost value due to the decreased viewership of the commercials which they make their money from.
IANAL, but I do have a gut feeling that someone does not have to be prosecuted in order for something to be illegal.
The only reason the claim to ownership is there is so that if your machine is the one that analyzes the parcel of data that reveals Gravity Waves, you can't take credit away from the Project by claiming that you discovered it. Also, that would probably make it illegal to alter the data, which would render the @home process illegal. The same goes for client source code, if the programs were modify so that the data was analyzed differently than everyone else's, it would be useless to compare to the others.