New Site Hosts Yanked YouTube Videos
There is a new research project called YouTomb that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violations. The site has screencaps from the videos, how long they were active, views and who requested the video be removed. Go check it out, it’s pretty cool.
More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.