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Pentium100:

--- Quote ---On April 29, 2011 videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the Video Status page, so you can download videos that you want to save. If you don’t want to download your videos, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

How do I download videos that I've uploaded?
On the Video Status page, click Download Video located on the right side of each of your videos in the "Actions" column.Once a video has been downloaded, an "Already Downloaded" message will appear. If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all. This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

I've downloaded my videos. Now what do I do with these FLV files?
FLV files are videos that have been encoded in the Flash Video Format. You can upload your videos in FLV format to other video hosting sites like YouTube or Picassa Web Albums. If you would like to playback your videos on your computer and they don’t seem to be working, you might need to install an FLV player. In order to find an FLV player to install, try doing a Google search for [ FLV player ].
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If you want to help archive all videos, please go to http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video

BakaBT users should have some spare hard drive space and good connections :)

Xtras:
I don't get why they don't just transfer all of it to youtube. I mean Google owns Youtube doesn't it? I thought that site was a Google service.

Pentium100:

--- Quote from: Xtras on April 18, 2011, 03:35:29 AM ---I don't get why they don't just transfer all of it to youtube. I mean Google owns Youtube doesn't it? I thought that site was a Google service.

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Either there is some law that says otherwise (I doubt it) or Google just does not care.

blubart:

--- Quote from: Pentium100 on April 18, 2011, 03:43:54 AM ---Either there is some law that says otherwise (I doubt it)...
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thats quite possibly the case. by uploading your video to google videos you accepted their ToS which likely specified something along the line that you give them the right to "distribute" the specific video on their platform.
if they would just move everything over to YouTube (with a different ToS) they might be vulnerable against legal actions initiated by an uploader for whatever reason - as they are technically only allowed to host the video under the google video brand and ToS.

Pentium100:
I think that Google ToS is like any other Tos - "we can do whatever we want including changing the ToS when we want" :)

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