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: http://youtomb.mit.edu/
Previously on Neatorama: What do 12-terabytes-worth of data look like?
youtomb.mit.edu/youtube/icYV0DYfdFg