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television. the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television claim their films lose their rerun value when they re recorded on home videotape recorders and then played later. the movie studio said this violated the copyright laws and they sued the home recorder manufacturers for allegedly instigating widespread in the home law-breaking. you cannot have high class entertainment if 50 million taping machines are out there in an unauthorized fashion with no compensation to owners, taking from them what rightfully belongs to them. the supreme court today answered a multibillion-dollar business question affecting the wallets of millions of americans and one of the nation s fastest growing forms of entertainment, home tape recording. the court ruled that use of a machine to tape home programs is legal and violates no copyright law. not only did the movie industry lose that one but they were totally wrong. the vcr turned us into a nation of movie nuts. it may be the fastest-

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