I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as videos

Posted by rolph on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:06PM
from the xda-developers.com dept.

https://www.xda-developers.com/youtube-as-storage-data-to-video/

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by ReflectedImage on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:11PM (#39473305)

Who would abuse a free service like that?

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by bombcar on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:54PM (#39473827)

YouTube (like dang) can just kill it in the same way - introduce enough unnoticeable errors so that the data is not recoverable.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by blharr on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:55AM (#39481265)

I don't think that's possible as long as you apply tedundancy

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by duffyjp on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:09PM (#39473281)

> I successfully turned a 7KB image into a 9MB video!

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by NoPedantsThanks on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:10PM (#39472423)

Reminds me of the tape-backup units that stored files as VHS video.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by oniony on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:50PM (#39474442)

My friend used to back up his Amiga hard drive to video cassette back in the day.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by arandomusername on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:02PM (#39473186)

People need to stop posting this stuff (similar stuff with discord). In the end it will lead to Youtube cracking down on it sooner.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by negativegate on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:11PM (#39473318)

All the more reason to keep posting this stuff. People who do this seriously are why we can't have nice things.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by arandomusername on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:13PM (#39474053)

And by posting this stuff, it just gets people doing this seriously to abuse it as much as possible, and it ends in it being blocked.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by blharr on Friday February 23, 2024 @10:11AM (#39481480)

Hmm, I'm curious why dont any of these use forward error correction? It seems like it'd be much more efficient to have parity added so you can rely on some of those bits failing but store at better rates.

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Re:I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as v... by jmakov on Sunday February 25, 2024 @05:42AM (#39499647)

Why not simply upload to usenet?

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