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Google Will Save Videos After All

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-for-effort-though dept.

don9030582 writes "After Google announced it would permanently shutter its Google Videos collection, dozens of volunteers from around the world sprung into action in a massive effort to make a copy of the entire site. It was originally slated to go dark on April 29th, but now they have eliminated any such deadline and furthermore they will be migrating the collection to YouTube. We wish Google would have planned to do that from the beginning, but ultimately this is a victory for the preservation of user-generated content on the Internet."

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  1. Evil Google by pixline · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn you Google: I spent last weeks sucking videos and wasting bandwith FOR WHAT? Time to send me that Nexus as a compensation, at least.

    1. Re:Evil Google by pixline · · Score: 3, Funny

      I would love to see you $600+ internet bill!

      Send me the Nexus and I'll send you back the bill, deal?

  2. Too much censorship on youtube by Blaskowicz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Youtube all too often give me the "sorry, this content is not available in your country" or "this has been blocked for no reason", or has video restricted by copyright locality. Granted I'm willing to watch silly nazi propaganda and hitler parodies but hell, why should I be disallowed to?

    I'll miss Google Video, as you could find some of the blocked content on it.