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We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape.

— Jack Valenti Testimony to the US House of Representatives (1982)

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In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep.

I think politicians and movie actors and movie executives are similar in more ways than they’re different.

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

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It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

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