Cartrivision, an early home video product, has a first example of DRM I know. This is 1972, years before VHS. Look at the size of this!pic.twitter.com/87GxPhddZX
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Cartrivision, an early home video product, has a first example of DRM I know. This is 1972, years before VHS. Look at the size of this!pic.twitter.com/87GxPhddZX
Anyway, DRM (Or ARM? Since it’s not digital). The gist: if you rented one of their huge tapes, you could not rewind it yourself!pic.twitter.com/N2vh4Ql7NR
You had to bring it back to the rental store so they could rewind it for you – and charge extra if you wanted to watch it again.pic.twitter.com/ck1GytJGHg
Also, “with Christmas just around the corner, all of the tape sitting in warehouses all over the country spontaneously began to decompose.”
Ah, the humble, troubled beginnings of watching stuff from our couches. More info: http://www.angelfire.com/alt/cartrivision/ …
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