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Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982 by teddyh on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:20AM (#21584646)
Some tapes had something called “Macrovision” which made it harder to copy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection#Videotape

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Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982 by agumonkey on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:24AM (#21584685)
True, but it didn't become mainstream until much later IIRC.
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Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982 by damontal on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:05AM (#21585036)
you could buy a filter to remove that
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Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982 by catalogia on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:07PM (#21587275)
IIRC some products even had the unintended consequence of removing it. I believe my mother copied those tapes using her camcorder to play the tape into the VCR which was recording. That's how I recall it working anyway, I don't think she had any special piracy/filter hardware.
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