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

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

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Post by soco »

filleokus wrote: post #62
mindslight wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Private companies seem to be the only ones with the resources to store all the video content we produce Definitely not. It's an addressing problem. I guarantee plenty of people have the youtube video downloaded with more redundancy than Google, and the OP even has the source files. The problem is that Youtube became the canonical URL for referencing the video, assuming singular power to control that address based o…

Ooh. Crazy, not at all thought through, probably bad, legislation idea popped in to my head: EU Data Address Ownership Directive: All services that allow users to upload data that is then made publicly available, MUST have a method for the user to create a 301 redirect to another location where the content is available. (Maybe allowing for a "Are you sure you want to follow the link to https://alternative.com and lea…

For basically such a redirect The Pirate Bay got taken offline - many times.

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

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Post by rewma »

ZetaZero wrote: post #64
DelightOne wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be automatic.

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

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

You don't need to. It would be enough to allow users to download all videos by default as a sort of local cache, have settings for max cache size and cache policy with LRU by default, and also support pinning.

Heck, doing what Google already does with Google Play updates would already be a step up.

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

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Post by jaywalk »

unixhero wrote: post #19

To be fair, it is violence. The guy took it like a champ, and quipped something funny which I found the reaction to be really hillarious. But the internet, including MMA sports and other things have really de-sensitized people on real violence. I for one can't say I like real violence.

To be more fair, there is far more violent content all over YouTube that hasn't been up for 14 years and become part of Internet culture.

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

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Post by jaywalk »

12ian34 wrote: post #14

One of my favourite memes of all time, so it's sad for the original video to be removed from Youtube, however, I am confident it'll still be available elsewhere, and, of course, as part of thousands of existing meme compilation videos. Sure, the Youtube team removed it, but ultimately, they're a private company, right? Aren't private companies allowed to moderate kind of however they want based on their own terms of…

I haven't seen anyone argue that what YouTube has done here isn't legal. It certainly is. That doesn't make it right or good.

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

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Post by DelightOne »

ZetaZero wrote: post #64
DelightOne wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be automatic.

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

One option is to use cloud storage and to pay for it. If thats not an option, how should an add-on decide what video to archive? A button besides the video, how often you watch it or whether you paste it somewhere else?

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

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Post by AegirLeet »

josefx wrote: post #63
theandrewbailey wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just history of the internet: Youtube takes down videos of war crimes. Destroying or covering up evidence of war crimes is, itself, a war crime. I'm surprised that Youtube isn't in hot water over that. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170812/01102937985/once-... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-ai-deletes-war-cr...

Isn't YouTube headquartered in one of those countries that officially consider foreign war crime tribunals directed at their citizens a reason to invade the responsible country?

I looked it up and YouTube is indeed headquartered in the United States of America, a known rogue state that regularly commits war crimes.

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

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Post by Retric »

ZetaZero wrote: post #64
DelightOne wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be automatic.

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

You can probably do it just fine for every video you watched twice.

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

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Post by giarc »

gambler wrote: post #65

If only Hacker News crowd noticed when thousands of videos with interviews, medical lectures, news footage and even congressional testimonies were removed for political reasons within the last couple years.

I see you submitted 0 of those news stories to Hacker News.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

plainnoodles wrote: post #56
dotancohen wrote: post #47

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> It's a shame a torrenting-based youtube wouldn't > really work for various reasons, both legal and social. https://joinpeertube.org/

Yeah, I know they exist. But they're never going to replace youtube in the foreseeable future, so having tools like youtube-dl, which would allow us to load content from youtube into peertube, for instance (or to archive it anywhere else), is important.

You can mirror Youtube channels with Peertube. No need for the extra step.
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