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Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or an

Ha! My time to shine.. I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..

cliffdover 8y ago
80TB is a lot just to hoard data... I don't think I even like so many vids.
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  Well.. I’ve got to have a selection for every occasion! But it’s not like I’ve watched every video I have, often I just download entire channels if I deem the content to be worthy for archiving.
  - hycaria 8y ago
    I bet we'll have tons of makeup channels then, right ?
    - kevingrahl 8y ago
      I’m a bearded, bald guy.. Not really my thing ;)
voltagex_ 8y ago
I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.
- Rebelgecko 8y ago
  I've had a lot of luck with finding YouTube videos that disappeared via archive.org
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    Glad you mentioned that! I just recently checked my collection to see which videos aren’t available anymore online. I should probably cross check the results with Archive to see if they have them available!
    - textfiles 8y ago
      I would love to have videos verified as no longer available.
      - kevingrahl 8y ago
        As soon as I figure out how to check them I’ll be sure to send them over to you!
  - alpaca128 8y ago
    Unfortunately YouTube also deletes the title when a video is being removed. I regularly have a couple of "deleted video" entries in my favorites list and I don't have the slightest idea what these videos were about.
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  I actually do have plans for that in place! I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around. I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed. Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. There’s a wide variety of data on there. About lost content; I just recently started looking up all the YouTube videos I own to see how many aren’t available anymore on YouTube (A LOT). Still trying to decide if I should re-up them with some burner accounts or leave it be..
  - voltagex_ 8y ago
    Talk to Jason Scott at archive.org. Those taken down videos could be uploaded now for safekeeping
    - kevingrahl 8y ago
      I just have to figure out how to check which ones already are on Archive. But I’ll absolutely do that!
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup
  - entropie 8y ago
    I know a kevingrahl from gradeschool in leipzig. Interesting comment, but thats the only thing I have to say. Are you a ginger by any chance? ;)
    - kevingrahl 8y ago
      Nope but that could be someone from my extended family.
samstave 8y ago
So, sharing is shining. Where can we see your warez?
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  Send me some drives!
leejo 8y ago
Long shot here, do you have any videos from The Portland Art Museum channel? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXneDVRq1lLde3oREF_cFyA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXneDVRq1lLde3oREF_cFyA # they deleted (or made private) one of the talks by Richard Mosse and i'd like to see it again as it was a great talk IIRC. On topic - I've also made a habit of downloading any videos/channels that are super interesting but I feel may also be ephemeral. Some of that ephemerality is often due to copyright claims, performances of classical music by amateurs and such.
josefresco 8y ago
Your ISP must not have a cap ... or a very reasonable one.
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  I don’t even have regular WiFi.. I’m mostly using my phones LTE via hotspot because it’s much faster than anything I can get (in a big city that is) here. I don’t have a cap for that.
  - josefresco 8y ago
    Every cell provider (in the US) has a cap (or cap and throttle system), especially for hotspots - I'm perplexed.
    - kevingrahl 8y ago
      T-Mobile (my provider) has a plan with unlimited LTE data and when someone in the EU advertises something as unlimited is really has to be unlimited. I managed to download as much as 2TB within 24 hours with no complains. I pay 80€ per month (~$92) which I think is fair. I get 25GB roaming data per month to use within the EU. But most mobile plans do throttle your speed to something unusable after you’ve used up your included high speed volume here too. This can range anywhere from a couple MB up to 50GB/month afaik.

cliffdover 8y ago

80TB is a lot just to hoard data... I don't think I even like so many vids.

kevingrahl 8y ago
Well.. I’ve got to have a selection for every occasion! But it’s not like I’ve watched every video I have, often I just download entire channels if I deem the content to be worthy for archiving.
- hycaria 8y ago
  I bet we'll have tons of makeup channels then, right ?
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    I’m a bearded, bald guy.. Not really my thing ;)

voltagex_ 8y ago

I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.

Rebelgecko 8y ago
I've had a lot of luck with finding YouTube videos that disappeared via archive.org
- kevingrahl 8y ago
  Glad you mentioned that! I just recently checked my collection to see which videos aren’t available anymore online. I should probably cross check the results with Archive to see if they have them available!
  - textfiles 8y ago
    I would love to have videos verified as no longer available.
    - kevingrahl 8y ago
      As soon as I figure out how to check them I’ll be sure to send them over to you!
- alpaca128 8y ago
  Unfortunately YouTube also deletes the title when a video is being removed. I regularly have a couple of "deleted video" entries in my favorites list and I don't have the slightest idea what these videos were about.
kevingrahl 8y ago
I actually do have plans for that in place! I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around. I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed. Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. There’s a wide variety of data on there. About lost content; I just recently started looking up all the YouTube videos I own to see how many aren’t available anymore on YouTube (A LOT). Still trying to decide if I should re-up them with some burner accounts or leave it be..
- voltagex_ 8y ago
  Talk to Jason Scott at archive.org. Those taken down videos could be uploaded now for safekeeping
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    I just have to figure out how to check which ones already are on Archive. But I’ll absolutely do that!
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup https://github.com/bibanon/tubeup
- entropie 8y ago
  I know a kevingrahl from gradeschool in leipzig. Interesting comment, but thats the only thing I have to say. Are you a ginger by any chance? ;)
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    Nope but that could be someone from my extended family.

samstave 8y ago

So, sharing is shining. Where can we see your warez?

kevingrahl 8y ago
Send me some drives!

leejo 8y ago

Long shot here, do you have any videos from The Portland Art Museum channel? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXneDVRq1lLde3oREF_cFyA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXneDVRq1lLde3oREF_cFyA # they deleted (or made private) one of the talks by Richard Mosse and i'd like to see it again as it was a great talk IIRC. On topic - I've also made a habit of downloading any videos/channels that are super interesting but I feel may also be ephemeral. Some of that ephemerality is often due to copyright claims, performances of classical music by amateurs and such.

josefresco 8y ago

Your ISP must not have a cap ... or a very reasonable one.

kevingrahl 8y ago
I don’t even have regular WiFi.. I’m mostly using my phones LTE via hotspot because it’s much faster than anything I can get (in a big city that is) here. I don’t have a cap for that.
- josefresco 8y ago
  Every cell provider (in the US) has a cap (or cap and throttle system), especially for hotspots - I'm perplexed.
  - kevingrahl 8y ago
    T-Mobile (my provider) has a plan with unlimited LTE data and when someone in the EU advertises something as unlimited is really has to be unlimited. I managed to download as much as 2TB within 24 hours with no complains. I pay 80€ per month (~$92) which I think is fair. I get 25GB roaming data per month to use within the EU. But most mobile plans do throttle your speed to something unusable after you’ve used up your included high speed volume here too. This can range anywhere from a couple MB up to 50GB/month afaik.