Snowden video from Moscow airport

He seems at ease, laughing at things happening to him, he also seems well rested and composed. I hope people won't read this as a sign he is doing fine and that he feels light about this situation.

There's a very good chance one of his endeavours in the coming weeks goes absolutely wrong, and he ends up in some u.s. prison, and this video of his heavy speech in which tension is relieved by cheery laughter over the absurdness of being at this airport for so long could be the last thing we ever saw of him as a person.

Re: Snowden video from Moscow airport

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Post by VexXtreme » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:23 AM UTC

mmariani wrote: post #2

Apparently [1:36] Snowden really is at the Russian airport, unlike some have been speculating [0]. [0] http://world.time.com/2013/07/10/snowden-in-moscow-what-are-...

Where is he living and sleeping though? On the chairs in the transit area? How does he handle basic logistics such as laundry, personal hygiene etc? I'm imagining that he is staying inside a hotel in the transit area (many airports have those), but if not, my heart really goes out to him.

Re: Snowden video from Moscow airport

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Post by kristofferR » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:25 AM UTC

Cool I guess, but why is the video so horribly filmed? Was filming not actually allowed or was the photographer just extremely lazy?

And a second, slightly off-topic question. The footage of Snowden is obviously news worthy and it would be fair use for channels like CNN to air it without asking lifenews.ru for permission. The semi-transparent watermarks are easy to remove with the right software. Would they be breaking any laws if they did that while still showing the red logo on the top of the screen?

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Post by ash » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:32 AM UTC

VexXtreme wrote: post #5

mmariani wrote: post #2

Apparently [1:36] Snowden really is at the Russian airport, unlike some have been speculating [0]. [0] http://world.time.com/2013/07/10/snowden-in-moscow-what-are-...

Where is he living and sleeping though? On the chairs in the transit area? How does he handle basic logistics such as laundry, personal hygiene etc? I'm imagining that he is staying inside a hotel in the transit area (many airports have those), but if not, my heart really goes out to him.

I don't think it's known where he is staying exactly. But there's an article by CNN reporter investigating different places where he could be living: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/russia-snowde...

Re: Snowden video from Moscow airport

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Post by znowi » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

VexXtreme wrote: post #5

mmariani wrote: post #2

Apparently [1:36] Snowden really is at the Russian airport, unlike some have been speculating [0]. [0] http://world.time.com/2013/07/10/snowden-in-moscow-what-are-...

Where is he living and sleeping though? On the chairs in the transit area? How does he handle basic logistics such as laundry, personal hygiene etc? I'm imagining that he is staying inside a hotel in the transit area (many airports have those), but if not, my heart really goes out to him.

He's staying rather comfortably at the "V-express" hotel in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport.

http://www.eng.v-exp.ru/

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Post by k-mcgrady » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:43 AM UTC

kristofferR wrote: post #6

Cool I guess, but why is the video so horribly filmed? Was filming not actually allowed or was the photographer just extremely lazy? And a second, slightly off-topic question. The footage of Snowden is obviously news worthy and it would be fair use for channels like CNN to air it without asking lifenews.ru for permission. The semi-transparent watermarks are easy to remove with the right software. Would they be breaki…

Why would they remove the watermarks? I often see on the news footage that comes from other news companies with the watermark still on. e.g. during a big event in the US that happens without warning the initial footage on UK channels will often contain ABC/NBC watermarks.

Re: Snowden video from Moscow airport

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Post by kristofferR » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 11:52 AM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #9

kristofferR wrote: post #6

Cool I guess, but why is the video so horribly filmed? Was filming not actually allowed or was the photographer just extremely lazy? And a second, slightly off-topic question. The footage of Snowden is obviously news worthy and it would be fair use for channels like CNN to air it without asking lifenews.ru for permission. The semi-transparent watermarks are easy to remove with the right software. Would they be breaki…

Why would they remove the watermarks? I often see on the news footage that comes from other news companies with the watermark still on. e.g. during a big event in the US that happens without warning the initial footage on UK channels will often contain ABC/NBC watermarks.

Personally I think the watermarking on this video is a little obsessive, but my opinion doesn't matter. I'm asking a hypothetical question, what I think or what the news channels actually ends up doing isn't important.

If they actually had removed it (for whatever reason, justified or not), would that be legal?