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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/25/2025 11:54 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:43:07 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> On 10/24/25 09:27, Paul S Person wrote:   
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   >>> And this presumes that /Consumer Reports/ took the appropriate steps   
   >>> when I wrote into them about their first DVD player article. This had   
   >>> two problems:   
   >>>   
   >>> 1. It complained that it could not record, thus showing that the   
   >>> Consumer's Union believed each and every one of its members was in   
   >>> intentional and frequent violation of the copyright laws by recording   
   >>> over-the-air programming. IOW, it thought we were all thieves.   
   >>> 2. It asserted that P&S (pan-and-scan) films were for older 4:3 TVs,   
   >>> while LB (letterboxed) films were for 16:9 HDTVs.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 	No they though we were all time shifters i.e. watching shows after   
   >> the broadcast time.  I used to do that but i figured out eventually I could   
   >> never find enough time to watch all the interesting sounding stuff.   
   >   
   > So did I, but I never fooled myself that I wasn't violating the   
   > Copyright Law. Or did the Courts rule this to be Reasonable Use?   
   > Recording the whole program, with commercials (presumably), to be seen   
   > again later again and again and again if one wanted to?   
      
      
    From Wikipedia:   
      
   "Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417   
   (1984), also known as the "Betamax case", is a decision by the Supreme   
   Court of the United States which ruled that the making of individual   
   copies of complete television shows for purposes of time shifting does   
   not constitute copyright infringement, but can instead be defended as   
   fair use."   
      
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