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What was the significance of the BetaMax ruling?


75 posted on 06/27/2005 8:13:49 AM PDT by Mr. Nobody
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What was the significance of the BetaMax ruling?

You could record tv shows and back up your CDs without being sent to jail for doing those things.

81 posted on 06/27/2005 8:15:02 AM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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The Betamax ruling gave ordinary Americans such as you and me the right to record TV programs and motion pictures off the air with the intent of watching them later.

This ruling gives us the exact dead opposite.

177 posted on 06/27/2005 2:54:36 PM PDT by Houmatt (Is it too much to ask for Tiffany to forgive my transgressions?)
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