Where does one acquire 90M hours of video without being YouTube?

Anywhere as long as you can avoid “legal/practice/business slog”. Success is defined by $1.5b settlements.

:) just kidding but also curious where besides torrents

My guess is automated surveillance, which is also where this whole play has to be headed.

Seems like that would be a good niche, not only for avoiding massive copyright considerations.

Also, it's some of the most boring footage where there's overwhelming amounts that's about the least desirable thing for humans to sit and watch every minute of.

Why send a human to do a machine's job?

pr0n

"I swear I'm seeding those just so I get my ratio up" :)

Or the counter FB argument "It's not illegal because I'm NOT seeding."