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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 v

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.

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.