Youtube – Can / Will Youtube delete the private videos

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I've uploaded 50x 1gb+ video files (they where 1gb+ at the time of upload, but presumably youtube runs some optimisation on them) from my computer to youtube and set them to private for long term storage as I'm low on space on my HD.

These videos will get very little views, if any, as I'm the only one who can view them.

Someone pointed out to me that youtube is a video sharing site, not a video hosting site so I'm not really using it for its intended purpose here.

Can / Will Youtube delete my private videos?

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I haven't found any official source to that, but basically they will delete private videos only if they violate YouTube's terms (e.g copyright, nudity etc.).

In other words, the only references I could find regarding deleting private videos, were about violations from one kind or another.

So, the fact that a video is private, does not protect it from being deleted.

Note: I haven't read the full YouTube terms, maybe the real answer is laying there.

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Youtube – Transferring all YouTube videos to another video hosting site

Full Disclosure: I am the lead developer on the site I'm mentioning...

If you can get the URL to the .FLV file (just google 'how to get FLV URL youtube'), Upload by Transfer is what we call it. That feature gets released next week on our platform (see blog post for details). You provide the URL to the FLV, and the cloud service pulls it off and transcodes it.

Edit: Just tried this with the KeepVid suggestion in another answer. Just picked a popular YouTube video... http://play.nimbushd.com/view/lfsv

This is normally meant for production shops with automated workflows (HTTP/FTP servers) but FLV is supported and it's no different. And in the interest of neutrality I suppose you could also do this with encoding.com if you had a destination for it (an FTP server or something).

If you're not looking for a cloud service/hosted platform, then of course there are YouTube downloaders and you can just save the .FLV files off to your hard drive.

YouTube – How to Embed Audio Only from YouTube Videos

It turns out that Google Drive does have streaming capabilities. And it doesn't change the URL for anything you move, so it's the perfect solution (aside from not having unlimited storage, but my use case doesn't require that, so I'm good). So my blog post jus consist of the following HTML:

Whatever I want to write here...<br />
<br />
<hr />
<audio controls="controls" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
  <source src="https://googledrive.com/host/DRIVE_ID_OF_FILE_GOES_HERE" type="audio/mpeg"></source>
  Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>

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Youtube – Transferring all YouTube videos to another video hosting site

YouTube – How to Embed Audio Only from YouTube Videos

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