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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by jacobush on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:52PM (#20567957)
Is it true that Sony deliberately did not make feature length tapes so people would not record feature films from TV?
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Re:Tracking Sex: Implications of widespread data leakage and... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:06PM (#20568087)
Highly doubtful. They were (mainly) “just” a telecommunications hardware/electronics company up until their purchase of Columbia Pictures in 1989; they wouldn’t have had an incentive to defend the entertainment sector in 1975 when Betamax was introduced.
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