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- From: kaplanr@knish.shearson.com (Roger Kaplan)
- Subject: Re: Macrovision hilarity--get THIS!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.172815.7308@shearson.com>
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- Organization: Lehman Brothers
- References: <19508@mindlink.bc.ca> <1993Jan11.130518.618@hnrc.tufts.edu> <trussell.726786645@cwis>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:28:15 GMT
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- In article <trussell.726786645@cwis> trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:
- >jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
- >
- >>Got me to thinking . . .
- >
- >>Does anyone know of any video stores that purchased just one copy of a movie
- >>and then duplicated a bunch to meet their rental needs?
- >
- > Not specifically, but yes, it's been done. They also get the Laserdisc
- >versions to make VHS copies, because that doesn't come out much worse than
- >the crappy transfer pressings that half the companies do to duplicate
- >their tapes.
- >
- > This is supposedly why Disney isn't releasing the LD of _Beauty & the
- >Beast_ until late fall. They don't want people in foreign markets using
- >it to create rental copies.
- >
-
- When I was in Kusadasi(?), Turkey, several years ago I went to a "record store".
- They had the only record player in town, and one copy of each record.
- You chose the records you wanted, and came back several hours later
- to pick up the freshly-recorded cassettes!
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