YouTomb

YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down by the Internet video sharing website YouTube.

The site gives information about which videos have been removed, with particular emphasis on how and why videos are taken down for alleged copyright violations.

While users can get general information about removed videos on YouTomb, the actual full-length videos can't be viewed or downloaded from the site.

According to its web site, YouTomb "conceived to shed light on YouTube's practices, to educate the general public on the relevant copyright issues, and to provide helpful resources to users who have had their videos wrongfully taken down."

• Official Site: YouTomb

• TechCrunch: YouTomb: Where Videos Go to Die (May 20, 2008)

• Webware (CNET): MIT's YouTomb Catalogs Videos Yanked from YouTube (May 20, 2008)

• NewTeeVee: YouTomb Tracks Video Takedowns (May 20, 2008)

• Google Blogoscoped: YouTomb Lists YouTube Removals (May 20, 2008)

• Andy on the Road: Berkman@10: YouTomb (May 18, 2008)

• [H]Enthusiast: New Site Hosts Yanked YouTube Videos(May 20, 2008)

• Topix.net: YouTomb

• Google News: YouTomb

• Google Blog Search: YouTomb

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