re self destructing copy protection on vhs tape in article klp quark klp doe carleton ca ka lun pang writes i borrowed a vhs tape from a friend and it has a warning in the begining saying that attempts to copy the tape will result in destroying the copy and the original i found this unbelievable as playing and recording are two different processes however i ve never seen this tape being sold anywhere so i don t want to take the chance even it s small anyone has experience in this kind of self destructing video tapes i have always thought that if i wanted to send the police a tape with a ransom demand on it or send cnn a video tape to see if they wanted to buy it i would place a small magnet near the take up spool so the tape would be erased as it was played who would think to check john
