[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12

Sean Harmer sean.harmer at kdab.com
Wed Apr 12 20:55:50 CEST 2017



On 12/04/2017 17:05, Roland Hughes wrote:
>
>
> On 04/12/2017 10:50 AM, interest-request at qt-project.org wrote:
>> [Disclaimer: IANAL] On Wed, April 12, 2017 12:43, Roland Hughes wrote:
>>> Only problem with "fetch the file first" is it would be illegal in most
>>> cases.
>> Your sentence translates to: "It is illegal to view any file (image, text
>> or otherwise) that originates on the web."
> No it doesn't. Fetching to media is where you get in trouble.

Define media. RAM is still a medium just one that gets wiped when power 
is removed. But even if you limit it to persistent media, then you web 
browser, email client etc all perform some level of caching to 
persistent media to improve performance.

Sean

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