• Riskable@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    You obviously never used a VCR to record a live broadcast before. When people were using a VCR to record things, that’s what they were doing 99% of the time. Nobody had two VCRs hooked up to each other to copy tapes. That was a super rare situation that you’d typically only find in professional studios.

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        7 hours ago

        Your VCR is hooked up to your TV (coaxial into the VCR and from the VCR into the TV). Just before the broadcast starts, you press the record button (which was often mechanically linked to the play button). When it’s done, you press stop. Then you rewind and can play it back later.

        The end user is sort of passively recording it. The broadcast happens regardless of the user’s or the VCR’s presence.

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          7 hours ago

          Well derailed, succesfully avoided going anywhere near the actual argument.

          I’m sure the manufacturers would’ve been in more legal trouble if they shipped VCRs packed with pirated content.

          VCRs do not contain such copyrighted material.