YouTube limits for private videos?

Asked by Amaroaverno (17

) August 30th, 2013

Hello
As you all known YouTube its a video sharing site that allows user to upload virtually unlimited number of videos.
However, can YouTube be used as some backup service for videos?.
Could someone, for example, upload thousand of videos and keep ALL of them private and none public? assuming that video’s content doesn’t break any YouTube’s terms of service (no copyrighted stuff, no porn videos, etc.).

I already posted this question on Google’s product forums and the answer I got wasn’t exactly clear “YouTube its a video sharing platform not meant for backup or personal use purposes”, but on the other hand nobody said that isn’t allowed to upload thousand of private videos.
So I’m pretty puzzled right now, can such activity be considered as “unproper” usage of the service ? (and ultimately against the terms of service).

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They told you it is not a proper use of their service. And maybe you can get away with it, and no one will ever know. But it is not morally defensible, and if some day a year after you’ve uploaded hundreds of hours of video they discover you have not abided by the terms and conditions, and they wipe out your back-up? What then?

How about burning DVDs of all your videos?

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As @zenvelo suggests, using a site designed for Sharing video data as a Backup and Storage service might backfire on you in one way or another. Have you considered cloud-based storage services like DropBox, which are intended for that purpose and are more likely to keep your data safe.

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