Imagine PCs without disc drives or CD or DVD burners. Forget about document scanners. And don't even think about videoing TV shows. If movie studios, record companies and book publishers had had their way, such technologies might never have gone on sale. Why? Because all can be used to copy music, films, books and TV shows illegally. It could have happened. Some 21 years ago, VCRs were almost outlawed after Universal City Studios filed a lawsuit against Sony Corporation of America seeking to stop it making and marketing the Betamax VCR, the world's first domestic videotape recorder.
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机译：想象一下没有光盘驱动器或CD或DVD刻录机的PC。忘了文档扫描仪。而且甚至不要考虑对电视节目进行视频录制。如果电影制片厂，唱片公司和图书发行商如愿以偿，那么此类技术可能永远不会出售。为什么？因为所有内容都可用于非法复制音乐，电影，书籍和电视节目。可能发生了。大约21年前，环球影城（Universal City Studios）向美国索尼公司（Sony Corporation of America）提起诉讼，要求停止生产和销售世界上第一台家用录像机Betamax VCR之后，VCR几乎被取缔。
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