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YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by baud147258 »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #6
metadat wrote: post #2

Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube? I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse. Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

>Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will. If creators start encoding their source and material into their content Google would probably be fine with that because it gives them data but also gives them context for that data. Edit: I meant like "director's commentary" and "notes about production" type stuff like you used to…

> If creators start encoding their source material into their files Google would probably be fine with that

it'd depends, as I don't think people using YT to store files would watch a lot of adds

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Post by sevenf0ur »

metadat wrote: post #2

Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube? I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse. Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

Probably breaks TOS under video spam

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Post by ragingglow »

Jimmc414 wrote: post #10

Very cool. I wonder how difficult it would be present a real watchable video to the viewer. Albeit low quality, but embed the file in a steganographic method. I think a risk of this tech is that if it takes off, YT might easily adjust the algorithms to remove unwatchable videos. Perhaps leaving a watchable video could grant it more persistence than an obvious data stream.

Sure, but the more structure your video has to have, the harder it becomes to hide information stenographically within it. Your information density will become very low I think.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by lifthrasiir »

geoffeg wrote: post #3

This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent some time figuring out how much redundancy I needed on each page to account for the scanner's resolution. I think I saw something similar here or on github a few years ago.

Searching HN for "paper backup" gives a lot of existing solutions, in fact too many that I don't know which one you saw.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by Annatar »

This works on the same principle as the video backup system (VBS) which we used in the 1980's and the early 1990's on our Commodore Amigas: if I remember correctly, one three hour PAL/SECAM VHS tape had a capacity of 130 MB. The entire hardware fit into a DB 25 parallel port connector and was easily made by oneself with a soldering iron and a few cheap parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcBY6PMH0Kg

SGI IRIX also had something conceptually similar to this "YouTubeDrive" called HFS, the hierarchical filesystem, whose storage was backed by tape rather than disk, but to the OS it was just a regular filesystem like any other: applications like ls(1), cp(1), rm(1) or any other saw no difference, but the latency was high of course.

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