YouTomb: Memorializing Removed Videos
YouTomb is a project by MIT Free Culture to archive information about videos removed from YouTube for copyright and other reasons that would otherwise vanish without record from the online landscape.
"YouTomb, available at http://youtomb.mit.edu, is a record of YouTube videos lost. On YouTube, barely a trace remains when a video goes down. For the police brutality clip, which Price discovered using the site, there is only this message: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by City of Blackwell, Oklahoma.”
YouTomb gives context to the takedowns: it doesn’t save the video file itself, but it records the video’s description, when it was uploaded, how many views it got, thumbnails — details that might explain how and why a video was removed. Over time, patterns found in the data could show how copyright is enforced on YouTube and might help devise ways to protect legitimate videos.
YouTomb gives context to the takedowns: it doesn’t save the video file itself, but it records the video’s description, when it was uploaded, how many views it got, thumbnails — details that might explain how and why a video was removed. Over time, patterns found in the data could show how copyright is enforced on YouTube and might help devise ways to protect legitimate videos.
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