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by CYR1X 339 days ago
Copy protection for physical media was so rudimentary back then. VHS tapes literally just have a piece of plastic you could break off that acted as copy protection. Everyone had CRT's so no one was a quality freak either, really.
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> VHS tapes literally just have a piece of plastic you could break off

I think that made the tapes read-only.

VHS copy protection was mostly some flavour of Macrovision (at least in Canada).