The Brunch Table

3/26/2004

Good Technology Gone to Waste

Filed under: — Joe @ 3:53 pm

Why is it that you can easily download the entire series of Deep Space Nine if you have the disk space and know where to look, but you can’t grab a BitTorrent of the Clarke testimony? (There is, however, a transcript.)

  • http://anukul.com/ Anukul

    A lot of stuff is available via streaming real video from CSPAN:

    Search results for “clarke”

  • http://www.articulatebabble.org vince

    C-SPAN would be so much more useful if they had permalinks up for their video clips.

    The evil of javascript must be stopped.

  • http://vector.retrovirus.com Joe Hughes

    Yes, and more importantly, I don’t get nearly enough bandwidth on the train to stream video. :] I tried to find suitable stream recording tools, to no avail…

  • Nick

    Well, as it happens, I did manage to get the hidden link for the Clark testimony–when I tried to watch it, the link popped up in the error message text. It’s

    rtsp://video.c-span.org/archive/ter/ter032404_cmsnpm.rm?mode=compact

    Unfortunately, Streambox and XFileGet are the only stream-recording tools I know, and the squirrels at Real have long since outsmarted them. Anybody else know how we can keep this li’l treasure for our very own? I’d love to edit together the good bits into a distribute-able MPEG.

  • Nick

    Well, somebody’s got an excellent condensed version up for us, as a quicktime:

    http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002098.php

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