Federal Judge Warren Ferguson, who presided over the 1979 Betamax case, died on June 25. The case was lost by Universal and Disney, who claimed that the new home recording device would cause copyright infringement to run wild, and changed the video market forever. Betamax eventually lost the platform war against VHS but Sony has now once again triumphed in revolutionizing the personal video market with the Blu-Ray player and discs. At least this time Disney was on the right side of the fight, as the market for their video market has brought in millions for the company.


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