I was wondering what was causing all these 500 Server Error iFrames to show up all over the web. This is exactly why I oppose our current system of copyright laws. There's no legal way to mirror a lot of the really unique, rich content that's on YouTube and, if one day that content creator decides to delete it off YouTube, we might lose large pieces of internet history forever and just flat-out break sites that are embedding that content.
So... about that. If you like a video, you better save it yourself because otherwise it will be gone someday forever. That’s good advice for anything you see on the Internet.
I don't have the time nor the money to be a data hoarder, unfortunately. I think there needs to be a bigger collective of people that preserve this type of history. Archive.org is doing a sizable job with the written side of the internet but there's still a long way to go to preserve media.
I too don't have the time or money to be a data hoarder, but if I like something enough that I'm going to want to read or watch it again, and especially if I want to refer it to others or refer back to it as a source, I'll make a copy.
Not because I necessarily want my own copy, but because it is the only way to make sure that I'll still have it available for my own use. That said, there's a lot that just isn't worth saving, so I don't actually spend much in the way of time or money saving it.
But that's exactly the point of my initial post. Downloading a video for myself on YouTube is technically copyright infringement. That's a completely ridiculous concept but it's the state of where the internet is today thanks to corporate lobbyists and politicians that are easy to buy off who don't understand how the technology works in the first place.
Only scheduled outages in their first few years, generally preceding a brand new video player look and feel before they eventually settled on the red that would is still in their current player.
Other than that, I don’t recall YouTube ever having an outage per se.
The homepage doesn't how any videos. The search bar starts showing suggestions as I type and ends up fetching videos but when I click on them to play, it says "An Error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: some-value)". Its down.
I wonder how other functionalities are working.
This is also affecting YouTube TV, which is a little unfortunate because it's NBA opening night and the middle of baseball playoffs. With so many streaming TV services, I can't be the only one who signed up for another one right there on the spot.
Do they encrypt the server side error stack trace so they can safely leak server details which makes error reporting on the client side secure and straight to the point instead of having deal to with custom error messages?
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https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
Not because I necessarily want my own copy, but because it is the only way to make sure that I'll still have it available for my own use. That said, there's a lot that just isn't worth saving, so I don't actually spend much in the way of time or money saving it.
Other than that, I don’t recall YouTube ever having an outage per se.
Normally it's just one feature broken or a handful of videos unplayable though.
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