The Washington Post, February 27, 1987
Tom Shales
In Hollywood, crybaby movie studios who twirled themselves into litigious fits trying
to thwart the rise of home video now make fortunes from films that otherwise go belly-
Latest of these intrusive brainstorms is a fault-
Hollywood claims such measures foil video pirates. Really, video pirates are only
interested in duplicating porno films. They are not going to make a load of money
duplicating "Out of Africa," one of the Macrovisioned titles that caused innumerable
problems for video customers and store proprietors. All movie industry claims of
alleged financial damage caused by piracy are purely speculative alarmism. They should
stop spending money on goofball anti-