maybe a competitor was tipped off about her business and hired a 'company' to flag the videos
Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#32Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#33Best of luck to you and your family. That said I feel like going forward y'all need to share work videos internally, rather than depending on YouTube. As an ultra longshot you might find the videos on archive.org This is a thread of someone who was trying to find his old videos . https://archive.org/post/1102732/many-youtube-videos-which-u...
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#34[1]: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube#Older_unliste...
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#35At some point the FDA didn't exist and we decided to create it to regulate an industry. At some point, fair credit reporting didn't exist and we decided to create that to regulate a different industry.
Is there a real and lasting solution to this problem that the firm hand of democracy can address?
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#36As useless and pithy it is to say "just restore from backup", having your livelihood (or a significant time investment) depend on a system far outside of your control, where you have no service guarantees or even a billable relationship, is a fairly shaky ground to stand on. Ultimately if you spend your time producing digital assets, you should have taken action to ensure you had ownership and control over them somew…
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#37maybe a competitor was tipped off about her business and hired a 'company' to flag the videos
Nah, there was a post on HN a month or two ago about YouTube warning they were going to start removing old unlisted videos, and someone on HN pointed out that this would probably affect a lot of companies' training videos
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#38That said, I'd also guess there's a countdown timer before they get deleted permanently.
I hope you can get a human from YouTube to talk to you.
It may benefit you to post a link to the youtube channel so someone can proactively investigate. Lots of google employees read this forum.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#39> youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company I don't mean to be an asshole, but nobody guarantees you that your videos will stay up perpetually on YouTube. Especially if you've got hundreds of private or unlisted videos, it doesn't particularly surprise me that YouTube would pull them down, even if only for petty reasons. If you've been following the state of their website over the past…
> "the cloud" isn't a panacea for your storage needs. Except that is exactly how cloud companies market themselves. That is exactly what cloud companies have been telling consumers for a decade+. Right up to the point of commercials showing someone lose a device and saying “no worries, it’s all in the cloud!”, etc. We’ve been told for years that our data is safer in the cloud than it is on our own devices. That the c…
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#40> youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company I don't mean to be an asshole, but nobody guarantees you that your videos will stay up perpetually on YouTube. Especially if you've got hundreds of private or unlisted videos, it doesn't particularly surprise me that YouTube would pull them down, even if only for petty reasons. If you've been following the state of their website over the past…
> "the cloud" isn't a panacea for your storage needs. Except that is exactly how cloud companies market themselves. That is exactly what cloud companies have been telling consumers for a decade+. Right up to the point of commercials showing someone lose a device and saying “no worries, it’s all in the cloud!”, etc. We’ve been told for years that our data is safer in the cloud than it is on our own devices. That the c…