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In <33BF2470.EED@scarlan.com> Lord Nymon <soldeed@scarlan.com> writes:

> Don't let the person at the register wipe your Video tape across the
>magnet to deactivate the theft sticker.  A store my friend worked at
>told me they had an unusual amount of returns of tapes with poor
>quality.  I asked him if they wiped the tapes across that big magnet,
>and he said yes.  I told him to not do that anymore, and no one has
>returned a tape since.

I'm a techno/trance DJ, so I make my own mixtapes, and I send a lot of tapes
to friends both here in Australia and in the US/Canada. I always wrap the
tape(s) in foil just in case they get run through x-ray scanners, or are sat
onto magnetic scanners.

Video stores and some supermarkets here in Australia seem to be taking a
liking to magnetic scanners as well as laser scanners, and there are big
signs saying not to put credit cards near them, so I guess the same goes for
any sort of recording media made from magnetic particles.

Regards,

Craig.
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          Craig Dewick, aka (Giarc) Navar, DJ. Member of Clan Analogue 
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