YouTomb: Where DMCA’d YouTube Clips Go to Die

By Alex in Blogs & Internet on Jul 17, 2008 at 2:44 am

The recent decision by a federal judge to order Google to turn over all YouTube user data to Viacom has the web atwitter – but do you know what actually happened to all those videos taken down from the website for alleged copyright violation?

MIT Free Culture has a project, appropriately called "YouTomb" that tracks these "dead" videos: Link

Previously on Neatorama: What do 12-terabytes-worth of data look like?


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Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:

  1. * Miss Universe
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 3:46 am

    This video was up for 2 1/2 years before being axed

    youtomb.mit.edu/youtube/icYV0DYfdFg

  2. Lionheart
    Jul 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    And how can this be useful to the average user?


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