Word: antitheft
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...studios, claiming restraint of trade. Several manufacturers have now settled with Go-Video, and Korea's Samsung is tooling up to produce the VCR-2. Meanwhile, Hollywood has modified its opposition because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from copying movies protected by antitheft coding. Still, moviemakers may see double for a while. Many of the films on store shelves, including hot new rentals like Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee II, do not contain the coding...
Stores are paying more attention than ever to light-fingered crime. Spending for antitheft devices has gone up about 18% in the past year. The most popular anti-crime item is a plastic tag about the size of a pocket comb that stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite...
...their valuables. Then, when the occupants were away, Fass would return and make off with the family jewels, the silver and anything else of worth. A week or so later, he would pay another call on his prospects, many of whom had understandably become quite eager to buy an antitheft device...
...sharp looking." Their eyes also caught an improper license plate; the driver was stopped and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Sylvia Horwitz is shaken by the recovery. "It was eerie," she says. At least the car may be safe: during the past decade someone installed an antitheft alarm...
Trying to curb the flow of stolen gear, drillers in Oklahoma and Louisiana have set up rewards earmarked to pay informants. Throughout the South and South west, law-enforcement officials and oil-company security people are holding seminars on antitheft measures. Says William J. Sallans, executive vice president of a Houston-based association of 210 petroleum-equipment manufacturers and suppliers: "We've bought more' cyclone fence since 1973 than at any other time in the history of the oil industry...