Time shifting is another term for recording programs on a storage medium to look back at a later time (time shifting) or another location (place shifting).
In this sense, time shifting is not a new phenomenon. In the past, only a video recorder was used for this purpose; From 2002, the programs (also) were recorded on (blank) DVDs with a DVD recorder; Nowadays, the recording is taking place directly on the internal hard drive of the DVD recorder. The difference between the old-fashioned video recorder and the digital recorder is merely the storage method: where the video recorder stores the programs analogously to video cassettes, digital recorders use digital technology. In almost all cases, time shifting is so making a copy to look back later.
According to the Copyright Act 1912 and the Rights Act, the creation of a home copy, including time shifting, is allowed provided all applicable conditions are met:
According to some, time shifting is not so much a copy, but some kind of "temporary displacement" of the time the program is viewed. However, this literal translation of the original Anglo-Saxon phenomenon of time shifting is incorrect, at least incomplete. Indeed, an important feature of the DVD recorders hard drive is the ever-increasing archive function. Partly as a consequence, the recorded and watched programs are not only "moved" but often retained for a long time, just for the purpose of looking back later.
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