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It was still an issue. It just didn't affect the average person quite so much.

The industry still hated vcrs, xerox machines, libraries, radio, mix tapes, etc. They still sued any time they could.

It was just impossible for them to identify the people copying cassettes, taping concerts, swapping mix tapes, xeroxing a passage from a book, etc. And when they did try to sue libraries to, say, try to block their lending VHS tapes, the average person didn't take much notice.



They also lost a lot of important cases back then.




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