[bensecure]

The vast majority of that video will never again be watched. If its just google footing the bill for it than I don't particularly care about it, but as soon as they start demanding that I pay out of pocket for it I would say they should first aggressively cull anything that is unlikely to be viewed. To the GPs point, I also don't care about the money they wasted growing their market share, and I'm certainly not interested in rewarding them for behaviour that destroyed their competition.

[soco]

Culling that would probably throw together with the bathtub an entire trove of internet history...

[Dylan16807]

What makes you think that?

I feel like the obvious starting point is to sort videos by whether they meet a view count threshold like 1000, and I would expect that to preserve internet history quite well.

I would love to see a breakdown of how many hours of video youtube is storing, sorted by how many digits the view count has.