I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as videos

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Who would abuse a free service like that?

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YouTube (like dang) can just kill it in the same way - introduce enough unnoticeable errors so that the data is not recoverable.

I don't think that's possible as long as you apply tedundancy

> I successfully turned a 7KB image into a 9MB video!

Hmm, I'm curious why dont any of these use forward error correction? It seems like it'd be much more efficient to have parity added so you can rely on some of those bits failing but store at better rates.

Reminds me of the tape-backup units that stored files as VHS video.

My friend used to back up his Amiga hard drive to video cassette back in the day.

Why not simply upload to usenet?

People need to stop posting this stuff (similar stuff with discord). In the end it will lead to Youtube cracking down on it sooner.

All the more reason to keep posting this stuff. People who do this seriously are why we can't have nice things.

And by posting this stuff, it just gets people doing this seriously to abuse it as much as possible, and it ends in it being blocked.

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