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All videos on Youtube were erased?

I don't see how it would have any effect negative or positive; at least, on my life.

Interesting thought!

Well, then a lot of copyrighted sections of magic revelations will magically disappear ... and a lot of exposed clips of magic tricks (made mainly by American teenage boys) will be lost.

Darn those American teenage boys...oh wait, I believe I fall into that catergory...

Realistically, somebody at Google would get the backup tapes out, somebody else may get fired for messing up bigtime

I've heard of a couple of instances where stuff has been irretrievably lost due to a web service's server failure/mishap, and it normally ends with the web service closing down (both because of loss of trust and loss of anything to actually do anymore). So if Google (extremely unlikely, they go through all sorts of security procedures to make sure it doesn't happen) does accidentally erase all youtube videos it'll involve Google getting into a lot of trouble and losing a lot of respect

Unless they deliberately delete them all and shut down youtube, I guess it can be compared to when Yahoo decide to close down Geocities and take down all of the sites on there. In which case there will be a lot of complaining from those who rely on the service, a lot of people who don't rely on the service saying how you shouldn't rely on third party services, and a lot of web developers having late nights downloading videos and putting them up somewhere else for their client

I'm sorry, that was perhaps the most boring answer you possibly could have wanted

I'd swear. Then cry. Then jump back on hulu or the streaming netflix on my roomates xbox. I could go either way.

This is why we should support the Wayback Machine more. You should see some of the abandoned web sites and news events they've archived. http://www.archive.org/index.php

"So that's what it would have been like if I had invented the Fing-Longer! A man can dream, though... a man can dream."