comedy idea: man is part of pedo blackmail ring, needs to call in threats, but all his material is on beta-max, hd-dvd, etc. needs to hunt down a way to convert them without anyone else seeing the contents. i guess set sufficiently in future that devices are rare
That's the fatal flaw in this view of things - no one ever seems to get called on it and when something like say ... a laptop full of "compromising" material comes out, the press simply ignores it.