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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by klodolph on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:01PM (#24771763)
I remember hearing that YouTube would store bit-for-bit copies of whatever you uploaded, allow you to download it, and wouldn’t check that it was a valid video file.
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:51PM (#24772057)
So we just need to encode our data files into a video format? Sure? There’ll be a lot of overhead due to redundancy to account for compression, but it’s free :)
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by ehsankia on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:06PM (#24772139)
There's a lot of projects that attempt/do this:

https://github.com/wau/YDrive

https://github.com/TheApeMachine/cloudtube

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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by sdenton4 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:40PM (#24772328)
MP4 is a VERY flexible container format....
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by klodolph on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:17PM (#24772206)
No—that’s the trick. It didn’t care if it was actually a video format.
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by alexeldeib on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:15AM (#24774006)
The implication being they still save it permanently, but now they validate it's a video feed. So all you need to do is encode your data as valid video.
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by nullsense on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:56AM (#24774261)
Then you just package it and resell it.
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