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    This is my new favorite site. I can't stand the ease with which groups claiming copyright violations can have content censured on YouTube. That place has become a useless collection of near-pornographic tripe, combined with the lightest layer of pop-culture fluff that Sony BMG, Warner, et... more

    Reviewed by PurposefulStride Aug 10, 12:58pm ( 35 reviews ) mit.edu

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  • Rated by PurposefulStride on Aug 10, 12:58pm

    This is my new favorite site. I can't stand the ease with which groups claiming copyright violations can have content censured on YouTube. That place has become a useless collection of near-pornographic tripe, combined with the lightest layer of pop-culture fluff that Sony BMG, Warner, et al., don't mind that the illiterate user base consumes. If you can't tell, I enjoy efforts to criticize YouTube. But, anyway, to review the actual site....I enjoy how YouTomb provides statistics to differentiate why a video was removed (it monitors videos that were removed for any reason). Unfortunately, the way they scan for video removals is incomplete: the quicker YouTube removes videos, the higher the chances that YouTomb's ongoing scans will miss a video in its entirety, as YouTomb won't scan a removed video it hasn't seen before. Worse yet, they don't have the resources to monitor all YouTube videos; YouTomb is just monitoring the most popular videos, as well as ones mentioned on some websites.
  • Rated by Zangief on Jun 17, 12:52pm

    The video scans pile up like every second, Youtube works fast
  • Rated by l8nitegirl on Jun 14, 4:01pm

    From the page: "YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation."
  • Rated by metaeducation on Apr 01 2009, 12:11pm

    Excellent idea to track this!
  • Rated by onreact-com on Dec 08 2008, 4:40am

    Anti-copyright-fascism.
  • Rated by PERCE-NEIGE on Aug 30 2008, 10:01am

    Le site que j'attendais! Les vidéos youtubesques retirées pour cause de violation des droits!
  • Rated by clownassasin on Aug 24 2008, 4:58am

    Brilliant From the page: "YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation."