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I remember hearing that YouTube would store bit-for-bit copies of whatever you uploaded, allow you to download it, and wouldn’t check that it was a valid video
by klodolph 6y ago
I remember hearing that YouTube would store bit-for-bit copies of whatever you uploaded, allow you to download it, and wouldn’t check that it was a valid video file.
- colejohnson66 6y agoSo we just need to encode our data files into a video format? Sure? There’ll be a lot of overhead due to redundancy to account for compression, but it’s free :)
- ehsankia 6y agoThere's a lot of projects that attempt/do this: https://github.com/wau/YDrive https://github.com/wau/YDrive https://github.com/TheApeMachine/cloudtube https://github.com/TheApeMachine/cloudtube
- klodolph 6y agoNo—that’s the trick. It didn’t care if it was actually a video format.
- alexeldeib 6y agoThe implication being they still save it permanently, but now they validate it's a video feed. So all you need to do is encode your data as valid video.
- nullsense 6y agoThen you just package it and resell it.
- sdenton4 6y agoMP4 is a VERY flexible container format....