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No. No, no, no! We do not live in a universe where "issues uploading" a video results in edits to that video. That explanation is immeasurably implausible. Is

No. No, no, no! We do not live in a universe where "issues uploading" a video results in edits to that video. That explanation is immeasurably implausible. Is sharing doctored evidence with the media a crime itself, or is it only a crime if that evidence is used in court? Sure, the are free to only share a subset because of privacy etc., but purposefully misleading?

fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
One thing that lends doubt to the malice hypothesis is my hope that nobody would be so dumb as to think that such a ham-fisted attempt at manipulation would pass muster. But so far I am at a loss to imagine what kind of errors would result in that video.
ck2 11y ago
Several journalists have seen the original video on the original equipment the other day and they said there were no problems like this with it. This can be a whole bunch of technical problems, or more likely incompetence with uploading it.
- verytrivial 11y ago
  Please name a technical problem which would result in the same bit of video appearing more than once in a sequence. If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure! But this most certainly is not that, let's be clear. This is not a technical "problem". There is incompetence here, I agree, but not the flavor you are suggesting.
rhino369 11y ago
When that uploading includes recoding and other processing, it's plausible. This video is probably encoded 2-3 times. The first time it is digitized in the camera. The cops might have recoded after taking it off the camera. And then youtube. This is some low budget police department whose IT department is probably a secretary who happened to have a PC at her house in 1993 when the spot was created. Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.
- tripzilch 11y ago
  > Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing. That's because they are supposed to make edits (cutting out the commercial breaks, for instance), the errors happen because the edits are done hastily, in order to release first. The police isn't supposed to edit or tamper with the video at all, and I can't imagine any way edits like this (missing bits and looping) can just appear by accident or technical error. The only edit I can imagine to happen by accident is an interrupted upload/transfer, which would cause the video to be truncated at some point, all the way to the end. It can't just leave parts out in the middle or loop certain bits.

fnordfnordfnord 11y ago

One thing that lends doubt to the malice hypothesis is my hope that nobody would be so dumb as to think that such a ham-fisted attempt at manipulation would pass muster. But so far I am at a loss to imagine what kind of errors would result in that video.

ck2 11y ago

Several journalists have seen the original video on the original equipment the other day and they said there were no problems like this with it. This can be a whole bunch of technical problems, or more likely incompetence with uploading it.

verytrivial 11y ago
Please name a technical problem which would result in the same bit of video appearing more than once in a sequence. If this was someone pressing play+record on an analogue audio-only tape, after fumbling around with fast-forward and rewind, sure! But this most certainly is not that, let's be clear. This is not a technical "problem". There is incompetence here, I agree, but not the flavor you are suggesting.

rhino369 11y ago

When that uploading includes recoding and other processing, it's plausible. This video is probably encoded 2-3 times. The first time it is digitized in the camera. The cops might have recoded after taking it off the camera. And then youtube. This is some low budget police department whose IT department is probably a secretary who happened to have a PC at her house in 1993 when the spot was created. Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.

tripzilch 11y ago
> Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing. That's because they are supposed to make edits (cutting out the commercial breaks, for instance), the errors happen because the edits are done hastily, in order to release first. The police isn't supposed to edit or tamper with the video at all, and I can't imagine any way edits like this (missing bits and looping) can just appear by accident or technical error. The only edit I can imagine to happen by accident is an interrupted upload/transfer, which would cause the video to be truncated at some point, all the way to the end. It can't just leave parts out in the middle or loop certain bits.