A Good Step: House Oversight Committee Puts Hearing Archive Video Online
from the nicely-done dept
The House Oversight Committee in Congress has done a cool thing that pretty much every committee in Congress should have done long ago: put a ton of its archived video of Committee hearings online. You can see them all on YouTube. The actual project was done by Carl Malamud -- and as we've noted in the past, if Malamud is involved in a project, it's almost certainly a good thing. Malamud is a leading force in terms of open government and government transparency, and it's great that Rep. Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee worked with him on this project. All in all, they put up 1,139 videos, ranging back as far as March of 1993 (and right up to December 16th of 2011). This is a "pilot project," so hopefully it means the same thing will be done with other Congressional video as well.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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I mean they are paying for alot of Congresscritters, so they could just use their special secret takedown channels with YouTube.
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The reason none of the Congresscritters didn't object to this is...
They think the internet is just a fad and so few people actually use it. YouTube is just a massive front for stealing money from their corporate sponsors, so this worked on 2 levels.
No real people would see the petty bickering videos, and they are flooding that den of piracy with boring content which will force all pirates to give up and run out and buy more movies.
How long until they have an Oprah AHA Moment?
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Quick question.
Followup question: Were the Megaupload videos removed to make room for these Congress videos?
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