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submitted 6 months ago by sudoroot@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Back when we would record onto VHS, is that considered piracy? Found a super bowl XXXI tape from my Uncle circa 1997. I'm curious lol.

Also side note, have any of you dabbled in digitizing old VHS? Have quite a few home videos on VHS and I'm wanting to preserve them for the future. I've done a bit of research and have come across a wide array of information. I know that doesn't really qualify as piracy, if there's a better comm for this, please direct me there!

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[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 48 points 6 months ago

Partially off-topic but I rarely get the chance to tell this story:

My old man was a porn hound. Talking wall of VHS tapes. You know what I'm picturing, that was his living room. Had 4 VCR's hooked up at once with several switches, a few switchboards for colour and audio correction, whole 9 yards. Lost an eye when I was a kid so always wanted to make his viewing 'optimal' for him.

What he'd end up doing was go down to the local Variety Video, rent 5-6 tapes, come home, and dub em over the weekend. Then once dubbed, remove the label with some heat, open the cassettes (the og and the copy he made) and swap the reels so he'd have the original one (which would be ever-so-slightly better quality than the copy he made, again, cause of his sight). Then seal em up, return the copy and no one was the wiser. Did this for close to 15 years before the place closed down (for unrelated reasons) and had his huge wall of big titty wank material for years to come lmao.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago

Unrelated reasons, of course.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 6 months ago
[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago

Loved him some tiddy.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

80s Goon Cave.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago
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