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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
In many U.S. copyright cases, statutory damages will apply, meaning you do not have to prove actual damages.
As for your second sentence: VCR only grew to be a major source of revenue after home taping was found to be legal, not before; if the case had gone the other way it may have had a chilling effect on the uptake of the technology and resulted in (ironically) less revenue for the movie studios.
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DRM can certainly have an impact on the uptake of recording technologies. Take consumer BluRay recorders, for example. Commonplace items in Europe, with dozens of different ones on sale in any decent audiovisual store, but extremely rare in the US. Why? Because virtually all TV programmes in the US are transmitted with DRM which prevents them from being recorded onto external disks.