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You can only talk about preservation if you actually can pull the content out. It's not like Google doesn't shut down a handful of projects early - at some poin
by d33 7y ago
You can only talk about preservation if you actually can pull the content out. It's not like Google doesn't shut down a handful of projects early - at some point they might decide to wipe unprofitable videos as well and we might end up with no preservation whatsoever.
- velcrovan 7y agohttps://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html
- thatannoyingguy 7y agoBut there are people who are constantly downloading the let's plays of those youtubers, so there will nearly alway be a copy of a video if it isn't on youtube and it might end up on archive.org later on
- nostalgk 7y agoAre there any concerted efforts to archive these videos currently?
- ru999gol 7y agoAre there really? I do watch a lot of let's plays and sometimes download them in bulk, but I don't keep them around for long. 1080p60 takes a lot of space and recently a lot are even in 4k.
- zrobotics 7y agoYou just need to visit r/datahoarders to verify this claim. No, I don't understand it either, but it is definitely something people do.
- danso 7y agoHopefully fans are archiving dedicated channels, like speedrunning groups, e.g. AGDQ, which is easy with youtube-dl's playlist command-line option. I'm probably being naive but deleting unprofitable videos seems like a remote risk compared to DMCA takedowns. But even without legal issues, YT seems to be finding more and more ways to stuff ads into the normal video viewing experience.