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Originally Posted by Ed999
This is a common misunderstanding.
It is not the act of recording the item that is prohibited. Private use is allowed. What the section in question prohibits is selling the recording you have made.
The section bans commercial use of the recording, it does not ban making a recording that you only use yourself. If you give away the recording, as a gift, that does not amount to commercial use. It is only selling the recording - making a profit from it - that is prohibited.
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But when you see how copyright holders treat free download websites and streaming websites, I don't think they are happy when people download from their catchup sites. The best explanation is they enforce more and more their free video on demand sites.
I agree that making profit of someone's work without his permission should be illegal but I don't like when copyright holders treat downloaders as pirates that's why I think recording audio/video streams is rather grey zone.