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Back when we would record onto VHS, is that considered piracy? Found a super bowl XXXI tape from my Uncle circa 1997. I'm curious lol.

Also side note, have any of you dabbled in digitizing old VHS? Have quite a few home videos on VHS and I'm wanting to preserve them for the future. I've done a bit of research and have come across a wide array of information. I know that doesn't really qualify as piracy, if there's a better comm for this, please direct me there!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The VCR was invented, marketed, and sold to do this very thing. When the VCR first came out (same for betamax) they didn't sell pre-recorded tapes because the only way they had to make those was to manually record them individually in real-time which was prohibitively expensive. That's also why movie rental places caught on: early VHS movies were too expensive for most to afford. But not too expensive for a business to rent hundreds of times.

Suffice to say: if recording TV was piracy, it wasn't illegal and the people bitching had no way to enforce their will.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

People did end up copying rentals too. Not just for videos but also games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My modded original Xbox was magical. Rent a game from Hollywood Video, rip it straight to the Xbox hard drive, return it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

We had one of those thingies that would allow you to rip SNES cartridge roms onto floppy disks.

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