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hunter

(38,264 posts)
6. That's excellent advice!
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 01:16 PM
Dec 2014

But I've run into video producers who deliberately don't caption because they don't want transcripts of their work to be easily extracted.

Shifty preachers are the most amusing of that lot, they frequently plagiarize the work of others and they don't want their hate speech to be easily indexed.

I think it's interesting the DVD captioning standard specifies the use of images of letters for captioning. The expectation was that it would make extraction of transcripts difficult. DVDs are also encrypted. Both schemes of content protection were overcome fairly quickly, which was one of the forces that propelled the Digital Millennium Copyright Act through Congress and across Bill Clinton's desk.

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