Yeah, deleting people's videos is no way to get long term user retention imo. Also, these days ya really need to leverage P2P technology, with remote storage and transcoding, etc. Be unstoppable.

Maybe someone should show them Hive-Tube. I don't have any contacts over there unfortunately. I'd be honored to work with them and upgrade their site and backend so that they can leverage all the things that Hive-Tube uses.

Hive-Tube is already live, so anyone who wants to install it on their server can do so. Instructions are shown at the bottom of this page:
https://Hive-Tube.com