YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

Post by eptcyka » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #107

derefr wrote: post #90

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> If you are producing videos at such a rate that you as the producer cannot actually save the content, then maybe you're doing it wrong. You can film 8K video on a smartphone these days… but only about 15 minutes of it before you fill up the phone’s internal storage. If you don’t have a computer with a big hard drive to dump the video off on, you’re basically stuck shoving the video out to “the cloud” and then delet…

When you can get 10TB [ EDIT: 4TB ] external drives for around $100, this is totally absurd pathway to take towards "preserving your own culture".

Post by dylan604 » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:32 PM UTC

la_oveja wrote: post #109

dylan604 wrote: post #43

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> Private companies seem to be the only ones with the resources to store all the video content we produce, If you are producing videos at such a rate that you as the producer cannot actually save the content, then maybe you're doing it wrong . If you are producing content for the exclusive use/distribution by a private company that is known to have draconian automated decision making processes, you have to expect tha…

This is deeply ignorant of the actual reality. Most content creator are not technically savvy nor have the ability to setup any kind of distribution service. Also, you're missing the whole point of video streaming, which is becoming huge. I've know youtubers that did upload videos as a hobby, but couldn't even afford to keep them locally stored in their hard drives after a few years. Makes the videos less valuable? I…

Post by newswasboring » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:36 PM UTC

plainnoodles wrote: post #7

This isn't a great specific example (it's "just" a meme and not even a particularly culturally significant one in the grand scheme of things), but in general this is why projects like youtube-dl are important. It might not be glamorous, and it might be a little stupid, but damnit this is our culture, for better or worse! And we should preserve it. Private companies seem to be the only ones with the resources to store…

Post by madeofpalk » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:42 PM UTC

throwaway09223 wrote: post #100

ZetaZero wrote: post #64

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I don't have enough disk space to archive every video I've every watched.

You probably do. Let's say you watch new and unique youtube videos for an hour a day, or 365 hours a year. (This is a lot more than I watch, btw) Let's say we have 5Mbps videos, or half a megabyte per second. 365 * 60 * 60 * 0.5 = 657G/year A 1TB disk is about $50, for about $25/year to store it at home. If you upload your videos to S3 Glacier it'll run around $8/year (per year, so after a few years this is more expe…

Post by newswasboring » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:44 PM UTC

throwaway09223 wrote: post #100

ZetaZero wrote: post #64

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I don't have enough disk space to archive every video I've every watched.

You probably do. Let's say you watch new and unique youtube videos for an hour a day, or 365 hours a year. (This is a lot more than I watch, btw) Let's say we have 5Mbps videos, or half a megabyte per second. 365 * 60 * 60 * 0.5 = 657G/year A 1TB disk is about $50, for about $25/year to store it at home. If you upload your videos to S3 Glacier it'll run around $8/year (per year, so after a few years this is more expe…