Re: congressional tape request

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> What we do is run a box with a TV tuner card in the office on the
> cable line and have it upload to YouTube. Might be possible to do
> something like that, although presumably you'd need a bunch of them to
> record all the channels.

you shouldn't do that. it's a permissions problem, not a technical  
one. You'd be breaking rules. (Technically, that is the answer ... put  
16 qvidium encoders in a minirack and connect each one to an internal  
cable channel. if you do that, use the command-line and api stuff I've  
been doing on both youtube and archive, it is a very straightforward  
solution. Did you see the 200 videos I was able to slam into YouTube  
in just a couple of days that way? They look really nice.)