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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. Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud by elucido · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nothing could have diminished faith in the cloud more than to delete years worth of content overnight from the cloud.

    It was a dumb idea to even discuss deleting it forever when Google wants us to trust them to host the data forever.

    1. Re:Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud by LordLimecat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Not if you pay for it. Only free "clouds" have this limitation. Paid "cloud" can be governed by SLAs and contracts; only a bankruptcy might throw a wrench of the "all your data gone with no recourse" sort into things.

    2. Re:Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      So you're upset over the possible loss of rare Google Videos content, but not the hundreds of thousands of ~pre-2007 YouTube videos which are deleted every day?

      There used to be some good shit on YouTube. It's mostly all gone now.

  2. Take it to the ballot box by tepples · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but hell, why should I be disallowed to?

    Because you and millions of others like you continue to vote for legislatures that continue to allow this to happen.

  3. Re:Google responds to the community by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much community is there when "volunteers from around the world" adds up to "dozens".

    Those were the people doing the downloading. There were thousands more who were telling Google not to be stupid.

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  4. Home and small business "SLAs" by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only free "clouds" have this limitation. Paid "cloud" can be governed by SLAs and contracts

    Home and small business "SLAs" for paid hosted services are best effort only, and the "contract" for home and small business tiers stipulates only that the provider must refund the service for the rest of the period.