how can youtube recover channels that were deleted by hackers if deleting a channel deletes the videos “permanently”?
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almost nothing is ever truly deleted “permanently”
If I were implementing Youtube, I wouldnt delete anything permanently for like, 5 years. I would give a “delete permanently” button, and customer support wouldnt be able to restore your “deleted” file, but we would keep an archived copy just incase there is some sort of trial we need it for.
An example would be, say your channel uploads Disney movies, once an hour, every day and then “deletes” them. Eventually the DMCA is going to notice, and give us a takedown request. We can then take that, and look at all the videos uploaded by this user, even the “deleted” ones to decide if this was a 1 time fluke, or if your channel is a serial offender in need of a ban.
Just assume all content you post on anyone else’s server is cached in the same way.
If a hacker takes over an account and tries to delete it, no worries m8, we never actually deleted anything.
And as someone else mentioned, sites like youtube use distributed and redundant data backups. If a large client is every truely taken down, its not impossible to restore from a backup.
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