On the one hand, it seems obvious that they would, to ensure that the digitisation worked. On the other hand, they’d probably get through 1 customer per month if they did that. So either they just dump the material to a file and send it, or they check every 10 minutes or so and watch a few seconds, but no more than that. Does that sound about right? 🤔
I have some stuff from 30+ years ago I’d like digitised, but I don’t know how I feel about a stranger watching 9-year old me be disproportionately excited to the point of tears about my Christmas gift of a life-size cardboard cutout of Wesley Snipes that my dad almost certainly stole from the video rental store. Some memories should stay memories.
Well now I want to see a video of a nine year-old excitedly freaking out over a life-sized Wesley Snipes cardboard cutout!
But in answer to your question, they probably do watch to a limited degree. But I’m sure they see so much random stuff while digitizing that they don’t pay that much attention. And worst case scenario, they’d probably think your video is a bit weird, but in an adorable way.
we did photo printing. people asked me to print the craziest shit but I’d forget about them the next day. so my advice would be to go to a very busy place
That’s a great idea, DDoS their brains to the point where they zone out 😆
It’s ok. You can say it. You’re 60+ years old, and you have some VHS home recordings you made in the 80s with a bunch of women you lured back to your basement dungeon, and then fed them m&ms until they agreed to have sex with you.
And now you have like 400 VHS tapes that are a hassle to watch.
But also, you don’t want the guy at CVS to know you have a tattoo of big bird on your left butt cheek.
This sounds like projection, Lost_My_Mind.
Especially since OP described his reason.
OP described his explanation, Lost my mind has the real answer through.
At my age, if I had the choice between eating my own M&Ms or doing the sexes with women while also doing maintenance and upkeep for a sex dungeon and having to make eye contact with women in order to lure them back to it… I’d just have the M&Ms (the peanut ones, naturally).
Notice they didn’t say that they wouldn’t do it “back in the 80s”
Busted.
bustin’
I can look past the sex dungeon, but peanut M&Ms?!
You disgust me.
Strangely detailled.
They probably skim through it to see if there’s any boobs and ignore the rest.
If you don’t want anyone else to watch it enough to ask about it, consider digitizing it yourself. Depending on the format it might not be that difficult, or a fun project.
We play the tape to record it but just check to see when it ended. You can’t just sit there all day doing nothing.
When I worked at a printer, a guy came in with a USB drive of photos he wanted printed, requested we not look at them. We obliged, but something felt off. Out off 100ish files, the guy printing maybe checked 2 to make sure they did print.
This wasn’t unusual, we’d get gruesome car crash pics for court sometimes, we always respected privacy. Some of the thumbnails looked “off”, hard to describe, got the manager and had him check a few himself.
Sure enough, the closest to CSAM I’ve ever been.
There was a parked cop car next door, we went and grabbed him. Called the guy to come pick up his pictures, and busted. Had lots of fake IDs as well. One of the few times I’ve counted on the police and they came through.
I used to do this kind of job. We’d typically check a minute at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. Unless people paid extra when we’d watch it in fulI. People who do this have seen way more weird shit. Unless you’re dealing with child porn that is.
