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Article: Maximum influence.(usage of Betamax VCRs for TV show infringement)
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- March 1, 2004
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The movie "Never Give an Inch" was the lesser-known of two 1970s films based on Ken Kesey novels ("One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" being the notorious one), but it's easily the more significant in cable industry history for two reasons.
First, "Never Give an Inch" was the first movie ever shown on the HBO premium service when it made its 1972 debut (by then the movie had been renamed "Sometimes a Great Notion"). Second, the Universal Pictures film was one of a handful of televised programs recorded in the late 1970s by a man named William Griffiths, using a newfangled device known as a Betamax.
Griffiths taped about 20 minutes of "Never Give an Inch," ...