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All the paranoia about consumers copying movies is hilarious. It was not a thing. We owned two video stores and didn't even copy movies, with plenty of extra VCRs available. Most people didn't have extra VCRs to copy with and wouldn't even know how to do it if they did. Their paranoia propped up the video rental industry for over a decade until they figured out sell-though.



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