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Free storage space. I wonder how much it costs for Google to store all those 2M videos. Here’s an idea. Encode your data/backups into a video (it’ll display as

Free storage space. I wonder how much it costs for Google to store all those 2M videos. Here’s an idea. Encode your data/backups into a video (it’ll display as noise but that doesn’t matter). Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.

bionsystem 4y ago
They will re-encode it and it might not be reversible I guess ? Also they regularly delete videos/channels with no warning and have absolutely 0 concern about backups.
- gitgud 4y ago
  > They will re-encode it and it might not be reversible I guess? You can encode information into the audio of video that is resistant to re-encoding. > Also they regularly delete videos/channels with no warning and have absolutely 0 concern about backups. You could use a level of redundancy in the videos which would resist that too, like the [2] RAID concept in hard-drive storage. [1] https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1687-4722-2012-25 https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.11... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
  - bionsystem 4y ago
    Thanks for the infos and sources.
throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
at quick glance, the videos seem to be in 1.5 - 4 minute range, so taking 2.5 minutes as average, youtube-dl fetches 8 MiB. I don't know what policy does youtube use for storing lower bitrate encodings, but I figure they only keep them temporarily for some time since it was last requested and encode it live. so 2000000*8 MiB = 16 TiB, not counting whatever redundancy they have. with the 20M views that guy has got in total, they probably make more money off him than the storage/bandwidth/compute costs
userbinator 4y ago
Encode your data/backups into a video An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive. Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
- BizarroLand 4y ago
  I wonder what would happen if you were content struck for copyright violations on some random burst of static noise?
- logotype 4y ago
  Nice, thanks for sharing!

bionsystem 4y ago

They will re-encode it and it might not be reversible I guess ? Also they regularly delete videos/channels with no warning and have absolutely 0 concern about backups.

gitgud 4y ago
> They will re-encode it and it might not be reversible I guess? You can encode information into the audio of video that is resistant to re-encoding. > Also they regularly delete videos/channels with no warning and have absolutely 0 concern about backups. You could use a level of redundancy in the videos which would resist that too, like the [2] RAID concept in hard-drive storage. [1] https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1687-4722-2012-25 https://asmp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.11... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
- bionsystem 4y ago
  Thanks for the infos and sources.

throwaway0x7E6 4y ago

at quick glance, the videos seem to be in 1.5 - 4 minute range, so taking 2.5 minutes as average, youtube-dl fetches 8 MiB. I don't know what policy does youtube use for storing lower bitrate encodings, but I figure they only keep them temporarily for some time since it was last requested and encode it live. so 2000000*8 MiB = 16 TiB, not counting whatever redundancy they have. with the 20M views that guy has got in total, they probably make more money off him than the storage/bandwidth/compute costs

userbinator 4y ago

Encode your data/backups into a video An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive. Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

BizarroLand 4y ago
I wonder what would happen if you were content struck for copyright violations on some random burst of static noise?
logotype 4y ago
Nice, thanks for sharing!