100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words

"Free TV is still with us today, the VCR made billions for Hollywood, and no one was strangled, covered by an avalanche, or drowned beneath a tidal wave. But even as the VCR became a profit center both for Hollywood and the consumer electronics firms that made the devices, another threat loomed large—this time against the music industry. And once again, a famous rhetorical campaign attempted to argue that the analog cassette was literally destroying an entire industry."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/...

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