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Prof. Wasserman explores the role that videos like this may play in civil rights enforcement in a world of millions of camera phones and YouTube. On the one hand, he argues that the ability for the public to record encounters with police may in fact constrain law enforcement officials – effectively flipping the dystopian vision of Orwell's Big Brother on its head. {…} On the other hand, he notes that film theorists and law professors recognize the inherent difficulties in relying on video to provide an accurate and complete account of an incident.
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"The reason why I put so much attention in it is that YouTube is the only place where the first 30 videos in the Seesmic du Jour history are, as the hard drive backup died. Lessons: keep a backup of all videos, post them in different places and keep the authorization from every channel when it is copyright material and they gave me approval…"
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