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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#21

Seems like a great way to get your account closed for abuse!

You'd be surprised how much YouTube lets you upload.

I've been uploading 2-3 hours of content a day every day for the past few years. On the same account too.

I have fewer than 10 subscribers lol.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#22
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.

So you invented QR codes?

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#23

Seems like a great way to get your account closed for abuse!

You'd be surprised how much YouTube lets you upload. I've been uploading 2-3 hours of content a day every day for the past few years. On the same account too. I have fewer than 10 subscribers lol.

Lucky you. I just posted my first two videos from a conference that were banned within a day for violating "Community Guidelines" without appeal.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#26
Turns out any site that allows users to submit and retrieve data can be abused in the same way:

- FacebookDrive: "Store files as base64 facebook posts"

- TwitterDrive: "Store files as base64 tweets"

- SoundCloudDrive: "Store files as mp3 audio"

- WikipediaDrive: "Store files in wikipedia article histories"

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#27

Seems like a great way to get your account closed for abuse!

You'd be surprised how much YouTube lets you upload. I've been uploading 2-3 hours of content a day every day for the past few years. On the same account too. I have fewer than 10 subscribers lol.

They let you sometimes get away with a lot more[0] ;)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

#29
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.

Reminds me of "Cauzin Softstrip", the format some computer magazines used back in the day to distribute BASIC programs, or even executables.

Random example from an issue of Byte:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05/page/n432/...

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