Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982
by u801e on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:37PM
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> The copy was notably worse than the original, and if you copied a copy and copied a copy pretty quickly the sync signals would b3e lost.
According to this video[1], it really only starts at around the 6th copy of a copy.
[1] https://www.snotr.com/video/16624/What_happens_when_you_copy...
Re:Video piracy was hardly a crime in 1982
by shmerl on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:29PM
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Copyright extremists were freaked out with VCR anyway, and tried to claim it's forbidden. They never learn.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
With a VCR you could make a limited generation of copies, plus normal VCRs could only copy at a 1:1 time ratio so it took two hours to copy a two hour movie.
The copy was notably worse than the original, and if you copied a copy and copied a copy pretty quickly the sync signals would b3e lost.
With the DVD on the other hand, once you cracked the DRM, you could make perfect (better than perfect because of DRM removal) copies at a speed much faster than viewing.