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It's designed to ruin most sorts of video copying.

The copy protection on Disney video cassettes is especially aggressive.

Some video transfer devices will detect video cassette copy protection and refuse to work. Some will make unwatchable copies. A few will quietly remove copy protection, but none of the name brand devices that did this advertised the fact.

At one time I had a Linux machine I'd built with some no-name brand video digitizing card that would make flawless copies of any video cassette, copy-protected or not, but that's not what I'd built the machine for.

Supposedly it's legal to make copies of commercial video cassettes you own, but it was never easy.

DVDs were meant to be as difficult to copy as video cassettes but the digital copy protection scheme used on DVDs was soon broken.

Not all commercial video cassettes have copy protection, especially older titles.