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jrockway
on Sept 20, 2009
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A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase: Inst...
It's not a grey area. Buying a book and skimming the boring parts is not illegal.
natrius
on Sept 21, 2009
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Making a copy of the book without the boring parts is illegal. This is what I think Instapaper does.
jrockway
on Sept 21, 2009
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It's perfectly legal if you do it for your own personal use.
natrius
on Sept 21, 2009
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Instapaper does it for commercial use. If the iPhone app does it client side, then it is probably legal. If it's server side, probably not.
jrockway
on Sept 22, 2009
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HTTP proxies that modify content are legal. How is this not an HTTP proxy?
_tggb
on Sept 21, 2009
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Thats basically what I thought. Perhaps I should have said "Where you think this is this a grey area."
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