Google Will Save Videos After All 69
don9030582 writes "After Google announced it would permanently shutter its Google Videos collection, dozens of volunteers from around the world sprung into action in a massive effort to make a copy of the entire site. It was originally slated to go dark on April 29th, but now they have eliminated any such deadline and furthermore they will be migrating the collection to YouTube. We wish Google would have planned to do that from the beginning, but ultimately this is a victory for the preservation of user-generated content on the Internet."
Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud (Score:4, Insightful)
Nothing could have diminished faith in the cloud more than to delete years worth of content overnight from the cloud.
It was a dumb idea to even discuss deleting it forever when Google wants us to trust them to host the data forever.
Re:Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud (Score:4, Insightful)
Not if you pay for it. Only free "clouds" have this limitation. Paid "cloud" can be governed by SLAs and contracts; only a bankruptcy might throw a wrench of the "all your data gone with no recourse" sort into things.
Re:Google wanted to restore faith in the cloud (Score:3, Insightful)
There used to be some good shit on YouTube. It's mostly all gone now.
Take it to the ballot box (Score:5, Insightful)
but hell, why should I be disallowed to?
Because you and millions of others like you continue to vote for legislatures that continue to allow this to happen.
Re:Google responds to the community (Score:4, Insightful)
How much community is there when "volunteers from around the world" adds up to "dozens".
Those were the people doing the downloading. There were thousands more who were telling Google not to be stupid.
Home and small business "SLAs" (Score:4, Insightful)
Only free "clouds" have this limitation. Paid "cloud" can be governed by SLAs and contracts
Home and small business "SLAs" for paid hosted services are best effort only, and the "contract" for home and small business tiers stipulates only that the provider must refund the service for the rest of the period.