The winning of Sony created a , changed the way people watch film and Tv

program
Rather than destroying film studios, videotape sales became increasingly important to
their revenue
Although the VCR received blame for a 25% decline in the summer 1985 box office
compared to 1984's, and closing movie theaters,[5] by 1987 it was credited with
causing a record-high box office, as videotapes' popularity encouraged consumers'
interest in films and watching them in theaters
Cable movie channels worried about VCRs affecting subscriptions,[4] but began to
offer more films for owners who wanted to build a home library,[5] even
encouragingtime shifting by broadcasting the movies during the night so VCRs could
record them while their owners slept
By 1995 more than half of Hollywood's American revenue came from home video
compared to less than a quarter from movie theaters
Forbes wrote in 2001 that the VCR was no longer "arguably believed to be the death
knell of the movie business. Instead it became arguably its savior" because consumers
much preferred buying or renting films to recording their own onto blank tapes
Pamela Samuelson, has remarked that "the Sony decision is the most significant
legacy of Justice Stevens in the field of intellectual property law and its significance is
likely to continue in mediating disputes between copyright industries and creative
information technology developers and users of information technology
Many of the same points of law that were litigated in this case are still being argued in
various cases, particularly in light of recent peer-to-peer lawsuits; for example,
in A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 239 F.3d (9th Cir. 2001)