On September 25, the City Paper published Dolan's survey of Bork's rentals in a cover story titled "The Bork Tapes".[4] The revealed tapes proved to be modest, innocuous, and non-salacious, consisting of a garden-variety of films such as thrillers, British drama, and those by Alfred Hitchcock.[5][6][7] The subsequent leakage and coverage of the tapes resulted in Congress passing the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which forbids the sharing of video tape rental information, amidst a bipartisan consensus on intellectual privacy.[8][9][10] Proponents of the VPPA, including Senator Patrick Leahy, contended that the leakage of Bork's tapes was an outrage.[11][12] The bill was passed in just over a year after the incident.[13][14]
^"Bork Tapes 1". October 9, 2007. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2023.