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- From: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H. Morrow Long)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: What is macrovision?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 09:40:50 -0500
- Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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- In article <1992Dec21.211210.25198@ncsu.edu>, kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester) writes:
- |> In article <4582@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- |> >In article <1992Dec14.120611.17364@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- |> tandri@eecg.toronto.edu (Sudarsan Tandri) writes:
- |> ><
- |> ><Is there some sort of copy protection on VHS tapes?
- |> >
- |> >Where have you been all these years? :-)
- |> >
- |> >Macrovision has been applied on tapes since somewhere around 1985.
- |>
- |>
- |> I have been thinking of getting a second VCR and would like to use it for
- |> copying tapes I havn't watched but need to return to the video store. Somy
- |> question is: what is this macrovision thing, and will it keep me from copying
- |> rented tapes? Any simple way to get around it? Thanks. If this is a stupidly
- |> basic question for this group, excuse me. I've been elsewhere!
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- Look in the back of Video magazine (or the resurrected Video Review mag
- if you can find it on newsstands) - there should be several ads for
- so-called "Macrovision(tm) eliminators" from mail order places with
- phone numbers you can order them from. The ordinary garden variety
- are around $50, those with added S-Video input/output are closer to
- $100.
-
- Note : this above paragraph is provided for informational purposes only
- and is not intended to encourage the sale or use of such devices
- to defeat copy protection on videocassettes. Some parts of the
- law may be fuzzy in this regard - such as whether or not it is
- legal to copy rented videocassettes for later viewing because
- you have to get them back to the store (and you plan on erasing
- or recording over the copy after you view it) - if there is
- anyone with a relevant legal background please let us know.
-