A couple of years ago, I bought a CVS camcorder to hack. Unfortunately, the camera had a new firmware version that encrypted the contents of the camera’s memory, making it impossible to suck all the videos off the camera.
In the intervening years, someone has written a handy bit of software called Burning Man to get around this problem. I was able to successfully download all the videos out of the camera and onto my hard drive.
Now I just need to think of something clever to do with a cheap video camera….
