YouTomb: where copyright-clobbered youtubes go to die

Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 18, 2008 12:32 AM | permalink

MIT's FreeCulture club has started "YouTomb" -- a graveyard for youtubes taken off the Internet due to copyright complaints.

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.

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#1 posted by MitchSchaft

, July 18, 2008 9:16 AM

Awesome idea. They should make a firefox browse plugin
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submitos.html

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#2 posted by MitchSchaft

, July 18, 2008 9:19 AM

Nevermind, you can't even watch the videos that they file over there. Booo to them.

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#3 posted by 5000!

, July 18, 2008 12:06 PM

Are we really using the noun "youtubes" nowadays?

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#4 posted by adonai , July 18, 2008 6:10 PM

I agree with Mitchschaft, it would be a better strike for freedom if they actually showed the videos in question (get the Pirate Bay to do the hosting ;)