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Originally Posted by bronco67
You can't compare VHS as a threat to the movie industry in the same way that digital video files are.
Vhs tapes could hold a free copy of a movie, but it wasn't like it could be floated through the ether instantaneously to millions of people that wanted to watch it without paying -- then re-distributed to even more people. Sure, the movie industry made a fortune selling VHS tapes, and the copyrights were pretty much safe, because 99% of people that made copies didn't have the resources to go big with their piracy, and cut into the profits. They were just regular people that wanted to have a copy of their favorite movie.
Today, anyone can just give away an artist's product without one cent getting back to the producers. Also there's no consequences to worry about since you're almost anonymous on the internet, or nothing is really enforced.
Same with music. You could make a cassette tape back in the day, but how were you going to give it out to millions of anonymous people in the world, without costing yourself a fortune?
It's not the same threat to the arts/entertainment industries during analog times. It's hundreds of times more damaging.
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your missing the point
the movie industry wasn't selling their shit to people on betamax tapes when they were complaining about the "piracy" of the vcr.
it was only when congress turned them down did they spend the money on figuiring out how to makke money from the vcr.
To this date nothing has been done to stop the loss of aad revenue from timeshifting, commericals are still not counted at, tv shows get timeshifted to death.
But the home viewing market now exceeds all other markets combined.
that the point, stop looking at the old way of making money and figure out the way instead.