You obviously never used a VCR to record a live broadcast before. When people were using a VCR to record things, that’s what they were doing 99% of the time. Nobody had two VCRs hooked up to each other to copy tapes. That was a super rare situation that you’d typically only find in professional studios.
markz@suppo.fi 22 hours ago
Mate, what?
It is the end user who receives the broadcast and feeds it into the VCR, is it not?
riskable@programming.dev 19 hours ago
Your VCR is hooked up to your TV (coaxial into the VCR and from the VCR into the TV). Just before the broadcast starts, you press the record button (which was often mechanically linked to the play button). When it’s done, you press stop. Then you rewind and can play it back later.
The end user is sort of passively recording it. The broadcast happens regardless of the user’s or the VCR’s presence.
markz@suppo.fi 19 hours ago
Well derailed, succesfully avoided going anywhere near the actual argument.
VCRs do not contain such copyrighted material.