Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

[Roeland M.J. Meyer]

At 10:37 PM 2/22/99 -0500, Diane Cabell wrote:
>Milton Mueller wrote:
>
>> Kent Crispin wrote:
>> (....)
>> > are
>> > we changing the caching mechanism?
>>
>> Take a look at the recent European Parliament ruling on caching as a 
>violation of
>> copyright.
>
>RAM caching has been deemed a copyright violation in the US since MAI 
>Systems Corp.
>v. Peak
>Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993)   Whether browser caching will be
>considered fair use has not yet been litigated.

This is interesting, do you mean RAM as in Random Access Memory? Every
modern computer system does RAM caching, if for no other reason, to improve
performance. In fact, that is the primary reason.
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