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YouTomb: the video graveyard - May 20, 2008

Via TechCrunch I checked out the story on YouTomb - a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. 

They keep inventory on the video's title, description, the person who uploaded it, when it was removed and a few images. The videos are unavailable for viewing, but the site keeps tabs on their ultimate fate. 

YouTomb is currently monitoring 223177 videos, and has identified 4395 videos taken down for alleged copyright violation and 13350 videos taken down for other reasons. 

According to their site, the goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.
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