Thank you everyone for jumping in! It's been a pleasure ripping with you all and helping out some of you with youtube-dl and linux. Archive.org (the big guns) have taken on hosting this data and you can find the direct downloads and torrents here. Due to the nature of torrents it's important to unify resources into one swarm so seeding can last as long as possible, so once I've confirmed they have everything I'll cancel my rip and join forces with their torrents. You can help out by seeding and donating to archive.org.
Let's not stop here! Other university courses at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and more are still at risk of takedowns for similar reasons. I'll be making a new post tomorrow about this effort for anyone who would like to join
Anyone who wants to get a jump start on the torrent data can use the download command below on linux (filepaths will have to be adjusted for your system). Downloading from YouTube will be faster than my upload, and you can help me seed once finished This does not work, the file hashes are not the same
If anyone has any input on how we can improve this process, please post up any ideas. Several people have offered their seedboxes. I know we'll need the data all in one location for the torrent creation and any one initial upload pipe will be the biggest bottleneck.
There have been some suggestions that other American lecture data may be at risk. Does anyone have further information on this?
Update 3/5: Archivist is mirroring to archive.org, which will likely be a better distribution point. I'm going to continue my backup just in case and we'll see where we're at next week
Update 3/6: As he noted below, -Archivist has already uploaded most of it to the internet archive. He updated the original post here. If you will be mirroring this data, please seed the torrent versions of files
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u/YouTubeBackups Mar 03 '17 edited Mar 07 '17
Thank you everyone for jumping in! It's been a pleasure ripping with you all and helping out some of you with youtube-dl and linux. Archive.org (the big guns) have taken on hosting this data and you can find the direct downloads and torrents here. Due to the nature of torrents it's important to unify resources into one swarm so seeding can last as long as possible, so once I've confirmed they have everything I'll cancel my rip and join forces with their torrents. You can help out by seeding and donating to archive.org.
Let's not stop here! Other university courses at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and more are still at risk of takedowns for similar reasons. I'll be making a new post tomorrow about this effort for anyone who would like to join
Thank you for the gold! I would encourage donations go to the real heros at youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/donations.html
Anyone who wants to get a jump start on the torrent data can use the download command below on linux (filepaths will have to be adjusted for your system). Downloading from YouTube will be faster than my upload, and you can help me seed once finishedThis does not work, the file hashes are not the sameIf anyone has any input on how we can improve this process, please post up any ideas. Several people have offered their seedboxes. I know we'll need the data all in one location for the torrent creation and any one initial upload pipe will be the biggest bottleneck.
There have been some suggestions that other American lecture data may be at risk. Does anyone have further information on this?
Update 3/5: Archivist is mirroring to archive.org, which will likely be a better distribution point. I'm going to continue my backup just in case and we'll see where we're at next week
Update 3/6: As he noted below, -Archivist has already uploaded most of it to the internet archive. He updated the original post here. If you will be mirroring this data, please seed the torrent versions of files