Youtomb - where dead youtube vids are burried
Want to keep track of what videos got stricken out of youtube?
Use YouTomb
What is YouTomb?
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.
YouTomb is currently monitoring 223460 videos, and has identified 4408 videos taken down for alleged copyright violation and 13400 videos taken down for other reasons.
I visited the YouTomb site and I found a nice use for the “latest video scans” part.. It’s scanning for videos in youtube and checking if its still up - not yet deleted. Well for me, i use it as an automated scanner that informs me what videos are in youtube and i just click on the video that i want to watch.
Check out Youtomb.
