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pingryanime:

--- Quote from: Pentium100 on April 18, 2011, 10:31:00 AM ---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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Google Video ToS upon agreeing:

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You agree to allow Google Videos to host your videos
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ToS subject to change without notice.


New Google Video ToS a few days before everything gets removed:

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Oh btw the old ToS was a lie, we're moving everything to youtube whether you like it or not
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ToS subject to change without notice.

datora:
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What kills on this one ... it's not that google could or should just move everything to youtube.  The point is valid, they may well be protecting themselves legally.  Well, in addition to the recovery of several tens of thousands of terabytes of drive space that can now be re-purposed.

No.  What I don't get is they don't offer account holders to switch their content to a youtube account directly, especially in bulk, instead of making everyone download everything just so they can upload it again ...  ::)

WTF?  Took me 10 seconds to think of that and probably take a talented coder about 30 minutes to build a quick transfer tool for those who would want to use it.  Would do little more than assign new domian/path/filename and and virtually no data transfer would have to take place at all.

teh g00glez has finally gone full fucktard.  Must have hired some unemployed microsoft managers to "handle" the project.

Pentium100:
Yea, but that's what you get when you trust your data to some company.

Now, let's say that moving the videos to youtube is not possible and keeping them here costs money, so how about providing access for people to download those videos? No. Google did not even give a list of all the videos. That would have been easy to do. But no, the lists have to be generated the hard way...

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: datora on April 19, 2011, 03:37:30 AM ---No.  What I don't get is they don't offer account holders to switch their content to a youtube account directly, especially in bulk, instead of making everyone download everything just so they can upload it again ...  ::)

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I'm not quite sure I understand. In case you didn't know, you can use your Google account to sign in to YouTube. They're pretty much interchangeable, even - if you do sign in to YouTube, you stay signed in on Google too.

There's probably some other, more subtle, underlying reason why they're doing this. Perhaps they are trying to purge their servers of old videos that get no attention by forcing users to re-up videos that they want to keep online.

NaRu:
They cant upload google videos onto youtube because the Youtube isnt called Google videos. Its a name thing. In the license agreement when using google videos it doesnt say they can transfer the video to a different service.

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