> Does YouTube have any incentive to “preserve” anything once it costs them more money than it brings in? They clearly have little incentive to do so. If ther

> Does YouTube have any incentive to “preserve” anything once it costs them more money than it brings in? They clearly have little incentive to do so. If there was a law that prevented websites from using technical or legal means to stop people scraping user-generated content, then I would agree that YouTube has not such obligation. But since they make it hard for people to make archives of their content, then I think they do have a moral obligation to keep it up.