The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
The FBI warning on tapes/DVD is because of porn2025 Jan 4
During that weird time in the 70s when porn became... not quite art, but something more than just porn, the San Francisco pornographer brothers Art and Jim Mitchell used their legal expertise to place restraining orders against everyone bootlegging their infamous Behind the Green Door video (the title a reference to a 1956 pop song about a private club). A Texas judge ruled that porn was for some bullshit reason exempt from copyright law, and therefore the Mitchell brothers had no case. They appealed. Quoth the SF Gate in 1999:
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Mitchells, a decision that led to the brightly colored FBI warnings seen at the start of rented videotapes today, a contribution to our national culture for which the Mitchells are rarely thanked.
Well then. Thank you, Mitchells. Also Jim later shot and killed Art for being a drunken belligerent mess, so there's that, too.
During that weird time in the 70s when porn became... not quite art, but something more than just porn, the San Francisco pornographer brothers Art and Jim Mitchell used their legal expertise to place restraining orders against everyone bootlegging their infamous Behind the Green Door video (the title a reference to a 1956 pop song about a private club). A Texas judge ruled that porn was for some bullshit reason exempt from copyright law, and therefore the Mitchell brothers had no case. They appealed. Quoth the SF Gate in 1999: Well then. Thank you, Mitchells. Also Jim later shot and killed Art for being a drunken belligerent mess, so there's that, too.