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IcyPeas

(24,455 posts) Sun Jan 17, 2021, 05:47 PM Jan 2021

U.S. Supreme Court ruled that... home video recorders to tape television programs was legal (tweet) [View all]

Interesting. I don't remember this being a Supreme Court thing. I guess it was a big deal for the movie companies.

On January 17, 1984, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the sale and use of home video recorders to tape television programming for later, private viewing was legal

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U.S. Supreme Court ruled that... home video recorders to tape television programs was legal (tweet) [View all] IcyPeas Jan 2021 OP

What was the vote? Polybius Jan 2021 #1

5-4 IcyPeas Jan 2021 #2

Wow, we dodged a bullet on that one! Polybius Jan 2021 #7

I remember that Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #3

It was very big... regnaD kciN Jan 2021 #6

That's why the corporations came up with technologies that couldn't be recorded nt Wicked Blue Jan 2021 #4

Jack Valenti led the charge against recorders... Archae Jan 2021 #5

I taped things all the time off of TV when I was a kid Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2021 #8

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