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bitwize
on March 9, 2022
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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
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
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The commercial
tapes
for the most part had Macrovision. The VCRs had a built in “circumvention device”.
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As of 1998 and the DMCA, it is a federal crime in the USA to sell a VCR without Macrovision.