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		shard on March 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) I don't think Macrovision was universal though, based on my personal experience as a kid.

bitwize on March 9, 2022 [–]

Back in the day, it wasn't.

As of 1998 and the DMCA, it is a federal crime in the USA to sell a VCR without Macrovision.

scarface74 on March 10, 2022 | [–]

The commercial tapes for the most part had Macrovision. The VCRs had a built in “circumvention device”.

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