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Posted by Steve Guidry on 02/05/07 20:10
"one-use" VHS cassetes do in fact, exist. There's a magnet inside the
case on teh takeup reel side, and the tape is erased as it exits the
scanner.
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Steve Guidry
Video Works, Inc.
1.800.844.4404
www.videoworksinc.com
"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> PTravel wrote:
>> "Larry in AZ" <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns98CAA1AB5F4A9thefrogprince@69.28.173.184...
>>> Waiving the right to remain silent, "PTravel"
>>> <ptravel@travelersvideo.com>
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> "Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:CI2dnZiCM5MA2V_YnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>>>> PTravel wrote:
>>>>>> "timepixdc" <timepixdc@aol.comx> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:timepixdc-20C2B5.09481501022007@news.lga.highwinds-media.com...
>>>>>>> In article <1170203953.011518.323160@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>>>> ptravel@travelersvideo.com wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Copying a DVD to a computer to watch on a plane is _probably_ fair
>>>>>>>> use . Not in the USA.
>>>>>> Really, counselor? Why do you think that?
>>>>> DVD == media
>>>>> computer != media
>>>> Media shifting has already been held to be fair use in the context of
>>>> music. Though I'm not aware of any decisions addressing it, the
>>>> rationale with respect to video should be the same.
>>> Didn't Disney vs. Sony (Betamax) settle that similarly..?
>>
>> Kind of. The Betamax case involved time-shifting, rather than
>> medium-shifting, though the underlying rationale is certainly applicable.
>> The interesting thing about the Betamax case, though, was that the
>> holding was based on a factual premise that, has since, been proven
>> faulty: the court indicated that its decision was based, in part, on the
>> assumption that people would not use VCRs to amass a permanent library of
>> protected material; the assumption was that any such recordings would be,
>> essentially, ephemeral. I really wonder how the case would be decided
>> today in light of significant real-world experience that contradicts this
>> assumption.
>>
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>>> Larry Jandro
>>> Video Engineering & Equipment Rentals
>>> Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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> Whatever happened to the "Mission Impossible" self destructing tapes?-)
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