YouTomb, where embedded YouTube videos go to die
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YouTomb, where embedded YouTube videos go to die

youtomb_screenshot.jpgThe fight for free culture rages on at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they've built YouTomb, a site that scans YouTube for metadata on videos pulled because of copyright complaints and posts screenshots and information such as time online before takedown. Sadly, what they don't do is archive the pulled videos so that bloggers with archives full of dead embeds can make their own fair-use stands. [News.com]

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