How can I know the date or time for when a YouTube video has been deleted?
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My guess is that they're comparing the audio in the videos to some sort of acoustic fingerprint database. When they find a match to something they know is copyright, they disable the audio.
If watching a YouTube video using the Adobe Flash Player: Right click on the video, Stats for nerds:
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YouTube does not display the date when a video was deleted anywhere publicly, neither on the website nor on the API. You may get a general idea of when it's been deleted by looking at the wayback machine or by googling the videoID (the part after
watch?v=), but you you won't find an exact timestamp.