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Youtube down for maintenance yet again

One of the fun things about Youtube doing maintenance is that I always know from the webstats on my blog where previous posts youtube down for scheduled maintenance and Youtube down – wtf? are in the top 10 results for “youtube down” in Google.  A quick look at my web stats makes me pop on over to see Youtube’s “We’re currently working on the site. We’ll be back shortly.” maintenance message, since people seem to always be looking for information about why or how long it’ll be down.

It’s been down quite a lot lately, and one does have to wonder whether it’s because there are architectural flaws in the way they’ve laid things out.  I’ve never seen Yahoo down.  GMail has had issues, but I’ve only had a problem with Google once that I can recall.  Since it’s 3AM, I’m not about to go looking up info on Youtube’s infrastructure, but I’ll see what I can gather at some point to see if I can provide any insight into their need for regular disruptive maintenance.

Youtube T&C change

ianiv over at blogoholics.ca has noticed a change in the terms and conditions at Youtube and pulled all of his videos off the site.  Youtube’s new terms appear to make uploading your video assign them the right to essentially do what they wish to make money with your content, even if it’s a “private” video.

Read more of ianiv’s take

youtube down for scheduled maintenance

Yes, youtube is down again, but the maintenance was scheduled… for 9pm PDT, and for a few hours.  Since I find that people searching for youtube being down end up on my blog, I just thought I’d let you all know it’s on purpose.