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0 pointsuserbinator11y ago0 comments

> Has the human race produced 464,000 hours of video content?

Far more than that... YouTube alone claims "100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute":

https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html

...which comes out to 144kh/day. In other words, one of these discs would be enough to store ~3 days worth of contributions to YouTube. So a box of these discs, let's say 1000 of them - which isn't all that big (e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neo-Aluminium-Storage-1000-sleeves/d... ), could hold an archive of every single video that has ever been uploaded to YouTube.

I am now reminded of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_UmWdcTrrc

Edit: got beaten to mentioning YouTube, but there's many other video sharing sites on the Internet, and of course there are probably countless hours of one of the types of video the Internet is well known for: porn.

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boyaka11y ago· 2 in thread

The majority of that is junk anyways. But I suppose some people obsessed with archiving everything wouldn't filter anything. If I were to grab "everything" from YouTube I would at least limit it to subscriptions and only subscribe to channels that don't upload bogus junk.

andrewflnr11y ago

Then the valuable commodity would become directories of worthwhile content. You would have people doing deep dives into the crap to find the locations of a few good pieces to share with their buddies or trade.

nightcracker11y ago

With the internet and Video On Demand that's already the case.

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