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  • The semantics is that downloading is copying something from one computer system to another. Nothing about intent or permanence or whether it’s a temp/cache file or not. If you did not download the file, you cannot have seen it.

    Whether you meant to do something or not does not change the action. The colloquial use of the word downloading to mean something different from streaming or browsing does not change the fundamental action.

    In the case of WhatsApp, which is specifically in question here, it doesn’t “cache” images in a temporary folder. It saves the images to your devices media folders in their own library. So even by your definition, they’re being downloaded. Now, this is a setting which is on by default so maybe an individual doesn’t realise. It doesn’t mean they’re not downloading the content.






  • Interesting point that EPL clubs shouldn’t be in the EFL cup. On one hand I agree, because it’s the EFL cup. But I think the EFL trophy is already serving that purpose. The EFL cup is more opportunities for the same revenue you and @Astrealix have called out as a benefit of the FA cup current format. Maybe the answer is reducing the unplanned impact (I all of a sudden have to play a replay) but making the lower rounds more robust, doing something to ensure that there are no EPL vs EPL matchups up to round X of both the EFL and FA Cup. I don’t know if that’s feasible or desirable, and the flipside is it probably entrenches the “better” teams because it eliminates the possibility of a smaller team getting to the QF or SF with a lucky draw.

    The real solution is to dismantle the corporate system that demands unlimited growth of all of these entities so that UEFA doesn’t need to keep adding to the comp to make more money.