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They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.
by purpleflame1257 6mo ago
They were right. I never sold a taped VCR, but my parents used it to time shift Saturday morning cartoons every week.
- nine_k 6mo agoTime shifting for personal use is expressly legal (making a personal copy). It was also an early form of ad-blocking, because a VHS recorder could stop recording at a set time, thus skip a block of commercials, and then continue. There were suits about that, too.
- da_chicken 6mo agoThe Betamax case that GP mentions is the same case that established that time-shifting is not copyright infringment. The law and courts were previously both mute on the subject.