In a message dated 95-10-01 13:08:00 EDT, you write:

>On Sun, 1 Oct 1995 Xur@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Again, I disagree.  There have been several court cases that have come
>about
>> because people rent prerecorded tapes and re-record for their own viewing.
>
>	Please cite those cases and I'll look them up with Westlaw.  I 
>doubt the holdings were that simplistic.
>
>>  Federal courts have deemed this is NOT illegal since the re-recorder has
>no
>> intention of making money off of the duped copies.  Some of the FBI
>warnings
>> have been updated to include the phrase "any re-recorder beyond personal,
>> non-profit use..."
>
>

  Perhaps he is confusing making a copy of a commercially bought videotape,
 with the taping of a show on the air waves.  If memory serves,  I believe
that the courts have ruled that it is legal to tape a show off the air,  as
long as it is for home use only.  ie taping a movie off HBO, Cinemax, etc.

        Anyone else know anything about this?










                                                                         Adam
F.