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How is that different from a VOIP call? The communication of the call is transformed into digital data. Are all VOIP calls considered recorded, and the fact that you didn't actually use the "save the recording" feature means that you broke law (if you're under a order not to destroy recordings)?


The order is about written records.


And the argument seems to be that, if you have a series of 1s and 0s on disk or in memory at some point (because the information was transferred from one computer to another), then it counts as a written record. I'm trying to understand exactly what the difference is. Not in an "I'm trying to pedantic my way around the rule", but in a "these two things are the same; data representing communication between two or more people" way.


> then it counts as a written record

Nope. Just like a drawing made by depositing graphite on paper isn't drawing, even though writing letters by depositing graphite on paper is.

> Not in an "I'm trying to pedantic my way around the rule", but in a "these two things are the same; data representing communication between two or more people" way.

I don't see the difference.




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