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Google Videos Going Offline; Time To Grab What You Want

Posted by timothy on from the when-it-clouds-it-pours dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I received this email this morning: 'Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we're removing the remaining hosted content... On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback.' They've added a download button for saving your content but it expires after May 13, 2011 and they encourage users to move the content to YouTube." Not all is lost, though. Writes reader none295: "If you want to help archive Google Video, get some Linux machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam / #googlegrape)."

6 of 131 comments (clear)

  1. The cloud. by GWRedDragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yet another example for people who say that the cloud is a good place to permanently store their data....

    1. Re:The cloud. by Osgeld · · Score: 4, Insightful

      you cant expect a paid service to stay online forever.

      if you care about it you have your own copy

    2. Re:The cloud. by DarkJC · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Here's what I don't understand: why can't they just move the Google Video content over to youtube themselves? They own both services. Why make everyone who wants to keep their video download it locally and reupload it back to Google's servers?

  2. Why? by Osgeld · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why didnt they just dump it all on youtube in the first place?

  3. Re:Oh no! by simp · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This video contains content from EMI, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

    Thanks for the notice EMI. Next time I want to buy audio/video content I will make sure to block you too. Just returning the favor...

  4. Why Doesn't Google Move It All to YouTube? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why doesn't Google just make all the Google Video content available as YouTube videos instead? Why not even keep redirecting Google Video URLs to the converted YouTube version? It seems like a lot more work for Google to manage the shutdown than to move it to YouTube, to say nothing of the work by users and lost value when video doesn't make the transition.

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