• Plaid_Kaleidoscooe@lemmy.world
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      Yeah obviously I mean I know it couldn’t work, but I’ve never even heard of this as a copy protection method. What was it used on? Like Hollywood?

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            1 year ago

            God dammit. I have to use my phone from now on. Video playback is messed up on my laptop 😭

            • janus2@lemmy.sdf.org
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              jokes aside, this would make a mildly interesting SCP. like a cognitohazard but for any kind of electronic recording device

              actually it could be useful for preventing electronic spread of other replicable infohazards. by playing the uncopyable tape(s) on a loop in proximity to the infohazard such that any potential recorder would also capture the uncopyable tape(s), transmission would be prevented as the recorder would simply be destroyed

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      Yeah. Playing and recording uses the same mechanism in a VCR. Writing uses a different method but it would be on the second tape. Unless you tried to record over the tape which I don’t think works on non-recordable anyways.

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      Okay, then plass edit the post title to reflect that. People not opening the comments may thing this is real…

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        1 year ago

        We’re you worried you may damage your new VHS tapes by copying them with your vcr?