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Big Brother a good thing? - 5/10/2008 11:53:42 AM

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause%2C-Manchester%27s-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html

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Many people are uncomfortable with the march of the surveillance state – but a Manchester band has used it to their advantage...

Too funny.

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RE: Big Brother a good thing? - 5/10/2008 12:21:26 PM

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"We had a number of different excuses as to why we weren't given the footage, like they didn't have the footage. They delete after a certain amount of time, so if they procrastinate for long enough, they can claim it's been deleted," Mr Churnside said.

Or maybe they do delete these recordings after a set time as there is limited storage capacity. The mind boggles as to why people play the 'oh what a great big conspiracy' number.

Funny it occurred to me recently that the national television service in china is called CCTV.

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RE: Big Brother a good thing? - 5/10/2008 2:13:41 PM

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That's pretty clever.

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RE: Big Brother a good thing? - 5/10/2008 2:36:50 PM

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