Google Will Save Videos After All

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 23, 2011 @02:52AM 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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Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud by elucido · 2011-04-23 03:17 · 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.
Take it to the ballot box by tepples · 2011-04-23 05:45 · 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.