> It's called contributory copyright infringement. The Supreme Court only ruled that the VCR was legal based on a very narrow use case… That 1984 Supreme Court

> It's called contributory copyright infringement. The Supreme Court only ruled that the VCR was legal based on a very narrow use case… That 1984 Supreme Court decision was a 5–4 ruling. Can you imagine the deleterious effect on the home electronics industry if, in 1984, a single justice had voted the other way, and the VCR had been ruled an inherently infringing device?