ospalh commented on Far From True by Linwood Barclay (Promise Falls, #2)
"When private investigator Cal Weaver looks into a break-in at the home of a recently …
Content warning Plot relevant tech noobery
Eh, could have put it in the main review. Anyway.
This book is set in the present, 2016, and we even get a one line mention of the short-fingered vulgarian as a politician. Still, this does not read like 2016. Main point is the central idea that media can’t be copied. There is a ton of talks about destroying video-DVDs, and not a single mention of maybe having dumped the raw video to a computer. Does that even work? Are there cameras that record directly to DVDs? I ges you could hook them up to some DVD-recorder. At some point the »discs« are even called tapes. Even VHS tapes could be copied by rather inexperienced folks.