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I think part of the problem is software that encourages continuous streams of soon-to-be-discarded information. Procedural/AI content is part culprit here - every piece of information on the Internet comes with a bunch of chaff around it. For all I know, the only human input into modern news articles comes from the computers' entropy collector (/dev/random) picking up on network disturbances caused by human interference.

To quote Mao Zedond, "the streets are littered with dried faggots, ready to be lit aflame". 8chan is like that, being on 8chan turns your mind into that and the software model causes it. Who's "smoking all those faggots"? The OS developers, the browser vendors and the server hosts.

There's a reason we don't burn books!

Reversible computing is underway but we don't have to wait for that. The zero-energy aspect - awesome, but what's much more important is the "no unplanned data loss" aspect - every bit is accounted for.

Charge the requesters a review fee, per minute of footage?

That way you can categorize the video on demand, and release it as a public good after. The categorization would need an appeals process.

Categorization would be akin to: release now, release in a year (for embarassment), release in 30 years (for crimes) and perhaps never release (murder scenes etc., but let it bitrot in a cabinet for 30 years first).

If you're poor you can ask a privacy and open governance charity to buy a block of footage encompassing the footage you need.

Perhaps someone could write an RFC for this and send it around police departments. It should be framed as a minor source of income and that it may be a fun occasional distraction to some agents - if the tooling has a sufficiently powerful playback and fast-forward function.

Tell me about it, I've been trying to develop a complete visual metaphor to category theory for years.

Edit: you're missing that to formulating the hard- and software stack we already have in a category theoretical metalanguage solves that problem also - but that requires overcoming DRM and lacking tooling for software analysis.