> may go away just like that all your videos are stored in triplicate on google's bigtable, a distributed anykey-anyvalue store, which is keeping the production lines of companies like western digital full throttle. at some point in the next 2 to 6 years, doubly so ten to twenty years, whole exabytes, then yottabytes worth of video on youtube, or whatever video host have you, are going to have to bite the bullet and send email notices as follows: "we regret to inform you that the planet has run out of hard drive space, and so your 170 terabytes of hosted video on our platform was selected by the ai for pruning, your choices are to  1. down-sample the resolution to get it under 10 terabytes. 2. do nothing, and allow us to securely delete the videos. 3. download your videos to your own devices so you can have a copy of them. 4. move your videos to another hosting website. 5. pay us 460 fed credits per month to keep the videos up as-is click here for payment instructions. when this happens, 99% of you are going to choose option 2, and those videos will be gone gone. if nobody saved it, then it will be as if that video never existed at all. we can fit 20tb in 3 or 5 cubic inches, and the buildings packed tight with these, can't go up fast enough. at some point, the immovable force of not enough disk, will push up against the irrisistable object of people demanding more space.
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