"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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[...] The case was won by the defendants, the decision also
stated that a private party can tape and keep for his own personal use
stuff grabbed off the air.

If there was an actual court case in which that conclusion was reached,
you
should have no trouble providing a specific citation, should you?

Pete, this was national news back in the eighties! Where were you, man?
The attention give to it was of the same magnitude as the RIAA nonsense
today!

Newps could probably give you a cite if he took enough time . . . Aww hell,
let me take a look for you . . . . google, google, tap tap Ah, here it
is. In no more than 10 seconds, too (ain't the 'net just great?).:

From: http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/10105

Summary:
"The MP3 generation may not remember it, but 20 years ago, Hollywood
fell just one vote short of winning a ban on the VCR. This month
marks the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in
Universal City Studios v. Sony, the case in which two movie
studios asked the federal courts to impound all Betamax VCRs as
tools of "piracy."