YouTomb was a website built to track videos removed by popular American video-sharing website
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...
. The site operated a searchable database of recent video removals on YouTube. It tracked not only
DMCA takedowns but also terms of use violations and user removals. Those videos removed due to
DMCA takedown
The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service providers (OSP) (a group which includes internet service providers (ISP) and other Inter ...
s were sortable by alleged copyright holder. The database was generated by software that repeatedly scanned YouTube for unavailable videos. The site was operated by the
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...
chapter of
Students for Free Culture
Students for Free Culture, formerly known as FreeCulture.org, is an international student organization working to promote free culture ideals, such as cultural participation and access to information. It was inspired by the work of former Stanfo ...
and its source code is licensed under the
GNU Affero General Public License
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the GNU General Public License, version 3 and the Affero General Public License.
The Free So ...
. Although it only tracked YouTube, a future goal was to cover more video websites on YouTomb (unavailable as of November 2014
).
See also
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Lumen
References
External links
YouTomb(archived)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
YouTube
Software using the GNU AGPL license
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