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From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Copyguard
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 12:33:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 12:33:00 1985
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  I got two or three useful mail replies to my query.  The concensus seems
to be that hardly anyone uses copyguard, probably because the newer equipment
isn't adversely affected by the weakened synch signal that copyguard is
based on.
  One fellow reported that his copyguard defeater actually caused more trouble
than it eliminated, since it provided one more electronic stage to muddy the
signals.
  It is also likely that copying excerpts from videotapes is at least as
illegal as xeroxing excerpts from copyrighted computer manuals.  In both
cases the providers don't consider extraction of excerpts to be 'fair use'.

  "But Inspector Erskine, I didn't mean any harm...."