That seems to be an artifact of the whole copyright thing predating all forms of...

		xp84 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Be a property owner and not a renter on the intern... That seems to be an artifact of the whole copyright thing predating all forms of computing and memory, but if we don’t ignore that one, we’ve all been illegally copying copyrighted text, images and videos into our RAM every time we use the Internet. So i think the courts now basically acknowledge that that doesnt count as a “copy.” *Not a lawyer

Expect I've given you a concrete real counter example of where they do treat copying in memory as 'making a copy'.