1978 from CBS’ “60 Minutes,” video piracy
A point of interest: most of the pirated videotapes in this story are neither Beta nor VHS….they’re 3/4″ U-Matic!! The only people who seemed to own a VCR in 1978 were either the affluent or people who worked in video. Friends and family I knew didn’t get a player until 1982-84. Back then, if you missed a movie in the theather, you would have to wait years to ever see it again, especailly if it was a blockbuster. So yea, I would buy in back then…. but today, movies come out too fast on DVD to bother with getting a bootleg.
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