This is pretty interesting, but I have a more general question about digital copying. Why is it that copies into RAM count as storage or as copies at all? It seems as tho the current copyright (and other) laws and concepts cannot practically apply to the digital world. We see the Wiretap Act unapplicable to email because the emails are “stored” on the servers RAM, while a practical definition would consider the email in transit untill the user reads it.
Now we have to be conscious of necessary processes just to use digital products. DRM cuts out fair use because it can make the process of using the media illegal (DeCSS), and because of the nature of digital files, we cannot send them without making about 1 million copies. Im just frustrated that I have to think of something being loaded into RAM as a copy, If you put a paper on a projector, and “loading” it onto the wall, (you’re within fair use either way, but still) is that every considered “copying?”

Well, perhaps you being more educated in the subject then I could give me some insight, or even just some reading material.
Thanks,
-Ian