I know a couple people that are going to have a Field day with that.

Good to know non the less.

Here it is in official print:

http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1233300&hl=en

I just saw the e-mail for it:

"From: Google Video <noreply-googlevideo@google.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Subject: Google Video Hosted Content To Be Removed After May 13
To: ...@Gmail.com

Dear Google Video User,

Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re removing the remaining hosted content. We've always maintained that the strength of Google Video is its ability to let people search videos from across the web, regardless of where those videos are hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide.

On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the video status page, so you can download any video content you want to save. If you don’t want to download your content, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

We encourage you to move to your content to YouTube if you haven’t done so already. YouTube offers many video hosting options including the ability to share your videos privately or in an unlisted manner. To learn more go here.

Here’s how to download your videos:

Go to the Video Status page.
To download a video to your computer, click the Download Video link located on the right side of each of your videos in the Actions column.

Once a video has been downloaded, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link.

If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all.

Please note: This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

Thank you for being a Google Video user.

Sincerely,

The Google Video Team

© 2011 Google | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Google is a trademark of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to Google Video and your Google Video account."


Why can't Google have an option to migrate to my YouTube account instead of downloading and reuploading?

This needs to be frontpaged... I can't do it though...
so a *quality sifttalk post will have to do... even though it sucks that google video is going down...

Awarding xxovercastxx with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by LarsaruS.

Thanks for the warning. I say we *sticky this for a week or so, so everyone gets a chance to see it and take appropriate action.

Stickying this post at the top of Sift Talk - sticky requested by Ornthoron.

Thanks for the heads up. I just browsed through my sifts and swapped out any Google Video embeds. Also found some other dead videos in there I fixed up too.

Reddit is compiling a list of notable videos to check out before they get taken down. Lots of good stuff there:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gr2bv/in_two_weeks_all_videos_uploaded_to_google_video/

>> ^ant:
Why can't Google have an option to migrate to my YouTube account instead of downloading and reuploading?


Google Video had no practical time limit and was pretty lax on copyright enforcement. I think the answer here is that Google actually wants a lot of those videos to disappear, so they've got no incentive to make it easy to transfer them.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^ant:
Why can't Google have an option to migrate to my YouTube account instead of downloading and reuploading?

Google Video had no practical time limit and was pretty lax on copyright enforcement. I think the answer here is that Google actually wants a lot of those videos to disappear, so they've got no incentive to make it easy to transfer them.


It's lame. Actually, one of my Simpsons clip (Ants in Space from Deep Space Homer) did get pulled though.

If we can find some Chuck Norris videos on there, this whole thing might not happen. When you post Chuck Norris videos, the website is bound by Chuck Norris license agreement.

So with all Google Video submissions on VS, should we mark them *dead early?

i went ahead and downloaded a bunch of clips that were recommended on that reddit thread (some i'd seen before but are absolutely worth keeping). couldn't find a plugin in chrome to do it so i used a python script -- which i got via the archiveteam site -- which i got to from reddit i think.

if you're interested: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video

i really hope they manage to get most of it archived. there is a lot of wonderful stuff about to disappear.

>> ^berticus:

i went ahead and downloaded a bunch of clips that were recommended on that reddit thread (some i'd seen before but are absolutely worth keeping). couldn't find a plugin in chrome to do it so i used a python script -- which i got via the archiveteam site -- which i got to from reddit i think.
if you're interested: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Video
i really hope they manage to get most of it archived. there is a lot of wonderful stuff about to disappear.


I wonder why archive.org doesn't do it too.

http://videosift.com/video/Robert-Newmans-History-of-Oil <---google vid embed.

Aww, it's the 30th now.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

*unsticky as this has passed.

Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by dag.

@dag and @lucky760: Since we still have some embedded Google Videos, shouldn't there be a sweep to dead them on here?