by Et in Arcadia ego » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:25 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Surely there is info about who took it, when and where? The fact that most examples come to us without a history is a major reason not to believe them. And yeah, there is no excuse not to upload the full resolution photo or video any more. If nothing else you can go to the public library and upload from there. Most have fast connections.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I came across that video on the old Hotline network as far back as 1998. Back then, there were no file hosting services and peer to peer/server-client networks were the easiest way to distribute files online. Consider also everyone's instinctive concern about the Internet that persists even today in regards to revealing one's identity and you start to understand why these films have little details and proliferate in the underweb rather than the normal one.<br><br>Even today, the best place to find these videos remains the opaque and faceless peer to peer networks where people are numbers and nobody <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>EVER</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> talks to one another.<br><br>A natural consequence of this that I've experienced myself is the neccessity of translating a file into a format that can be read on my own machine. Image conversion is a brutal process that degrades the file through every step of it's passage through the web, and that includes any data that may have been attatched originally. For instance, PC's don't read a Macintosh file's data fork, so a place where Mac users commonly embedded critical information is automatically lost <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>just by saving the file on a pc</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. In regards to this UFO crash video, someone may have placed extensive info in a resource fork that was lost in file transfer and the person may be justifiably terrified to speak of it online. Even at places like youtube and imageshack you're not really anonymous; if the server host asks your name it can be extracted one way or the other.<br><br>I've seen better renders of this UFO crash myself, and may even still have a copy of it on an old disk, I'll need to check, but can't make any guarantees. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>