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https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html > 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. "
by mankyd 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
> 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
"Backup" may be a strong term here. Perhaps you mean "mirror of specific videos"? I suppose in this regard, YouTube is acting as a reference index.
(I feel like such a pessimist today.)
- toomuchtodo 12y ago"cache" would be a much better term to use, as there are specific DMCA exemptions that protect caches: http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise36.html http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise36.html
- obvio171 12y agoThanks for the heads up. I've changed the wording in the descriptions.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoAwesome. You can ignore my email :)
- greenyoda 12y agoThe linked page says: "Subsection (b), service provider caching, exempts service providers’ making local copies of Web pages so that the pages don’t have to be fetched repeatedly over the Internet." It doesn't sound like random people making copies of specific YouTube videos would qualify as "service providers". In the case of YouTube videos, wouldn't YouTube be the service provider who is allowed to create cached copies, like on a CDN? From a legal point of view, making copies of YouTube videos available to the public would seem to be a straightforward violation of the video creators' copyrights, except in cases where they license the videos in a way that specifically allows such copying. I'd expect that copyright owners would get upset about this.