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Originally Posted by George Nishimura
I think the Dropbox/Box solution, or server set up with ZendTo, or maybe even a GoogleDrive with GoFileDrop would be a lot simpler and a lot easier to settle.
Everyone submits their videos voluntarily, and we have a 'write-only' archive (with special read-only permissions). So everyone still has control over how their video is displayed/showcased, but we still have the back-up in case accounts are lost/videos disappear in the future.
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Yeah, this was brought up in the
other thread
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Originally Posted by Hallry
I completely agree. What if TBA starts a Dropbox/Box.com account where uploaders can voluntarily submit their match videos (similar to what FIRST did with the Dean's HW Submissions this year), in case they want their footage to be saved if for some reason their account is deleted in the future. If their account is deleted, then TBA would be able to upload the videos on their own (since they got the okay from the uploader) and thus they're saved. You can't force uploaders to preserve their footage if they don't want to, after all, it is their's. But if they want to, they'll have the option.
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I like the idea, in theory, but am not sure what the best way to accomplish it technologically is. Videos are big, and server storage costs money. If we use Dropbox/Box, those can act as CDNs and other sites can embed from there. But we'd then have the problem of limited storage (50 gig on box - that goes away quickly when you're storing limits) and problems of bandwith usage (something like this could be against the TOS and get the account banned).
Or, I know that TBA runs on Google App Engine. That charges $0.026 / GB / month, but also charges $0.12 / GB of outgoing data (
source). While cheap, those numbers are nonzero, and someone would have to pay for them. Plus, one of the reasons TBA moved to their current YouTube solution was to avoid having to pay for data storage for tons of video.
But I bet there's a way we can come up with something that works for everybody, a solution is out there somewhere