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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by javajosh »

throwaway92394 wrote: post #43
sevenf0ur wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably breaks TOS under video spam

Just gotta add some good 'ol steganography

This brings up an interesting question: what is the upper-bound of hidden data density using video steganography? E.g. how much extra data can you add before noticeable degradation? It's interesting because it requires both a detailed understanding of video encoding and also understanding of human perception of video.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by marginalia_nu »

8K832d7tNmiQ wrote: post #55

I remember seeing this first discussed at 4chan /g/ board as a joke wether or not they can abuse Youtube's unlimited file size upload limit, then escalated into a proof of concept shown in the repo :)

This is a tangent. I must have been maybe 15-16 at the time, so somewhere around 20 years ago: One of the first pieces of software I remember building was a POP3 server that served files, that you could download using an email client where they would show up as attachments.

Incredibly bizarre idea. I'm not sure who I thought would benefit from this. I guess I got swept up in RFC1939 and needed to build... something.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by IshKebab »

ihaveajob wrote: post #67
itake wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in the day when @gmail was famous for their massive free storage for email, ppl wrote scripts to chunk large files and store them as email attachments.

I know someone who published an academic paper on doing exactly this.

Doesn't sound very noteworthy tbh. It's obviously possible and the implementation is straightforward.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by adzm »

itake wrote: post #63
umvi wrote: post #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"

Back in the day when @gmail was famous for their massive free storage for email, ppl wrote scripts to chunk large files and store them as email attachments.

People did this on AOL in the 90s as well!

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by geoffeg »

aaaaaaaaaaab wrote: post #22
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.

So you invented QR codes?

Overly complicated, color QR codes.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by ogurechny »

Annatar wrote: post #17

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…

130 MB for the whole tape is not a lot. It equals to a floppy disk throughput, which is probably not a coincidence. However, basic soldering implies that the rest of the system acts like a big software-defined DAC/ADC.

Dedicated controller could pack a lot more data, as in hobo tape storage system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

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