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As you probably know Google bought You Tube back in 2006, if not catch up on the £883 million deal at :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6034577.stm

As you would expect ( especially given how much Google put in reserve to settle copyright infringement problems ) Google is now concentrating on You Tube as its video sharing site. So Google Video is going to be shut down on 29th April but is giving users till 13th May to download their videos before everything gets wiped forever.

Now I know that most of you are thinking ‘so what ?’, but remember this is a slice of internet history … Yes 99% is someone just ranting at a webcam but it is always that 1% that makes archiving worth while.

But even that 99% gives a fantastic snapshot life at that moment in time.

I used to work for a living buying and selling domains and one piece of vital information was the history of a domain, one of the tools that I used was the WayBack Machine provided by Archive.org. I also found it fascinating just to see how sites looked a few years back … Including some of mine

They have supplied 100TB of storage for a project that is trying to archive all the old content from Google Videos.

This is where YOU can help. The internet is a wonderful medium for communication and sharing of information, imagine sitting there in your old age and you can tell you grandchildren either that you posted that you were at a great party 50 years ago … Or that you helped archive one of the greatest repositories of life in the noughties

To help go to :

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video

Sorry to make assumptions again, but if you have read this far then you are probably running a Linux system so not a problem with the software, however for those running Windows you can run it under Cygwin. In either case if you come across any problems let me know and I would be glad to help.