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[–] 19 points 10 months ago (11 children)

My first acy of piracy, tho I did not know it at the time, was recording songs from the radio to blank cassettes.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That wasn’t piracy. That was fair use.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    I don't think that's how Fair Use works.

    ...by which I mean, it's not.

    Not that it really matters. Much like those idiotic FBI warnings on media. I'm in the UK and seeing them annoys me no end. The pirated stuff doesn't have the warning! I bought it! Fuck off! Also you have no jurisdiction, you arrogant twats.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios%2C_Inc.

    ruled that the making of individual copies of complete television shows for purposes of time shifting does not constitute copyright infringement, but can instead be defended as fair use

    This is video recording of broadcast media, but is the same idea as audio recording broadcast media.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    My sister had a cassette player with built in TV. We later found you could record shows by linking the RCA out to the cassette line in, and do the reverse for playback...however the volume of the casette controlled how large the image would be on the screen, so a bit tricky for playback

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