P2P is actually mostly preserving movies. I find it to not be an abundant resource for old music recordings/lives. I've downloaded quite a number of really old

P2P is actually mostly preserving movies. I find it to not be an abundant resource for old music recordings/lives. I've downloaded quite a number of really old live performance of classical music from YouTube, that are practically nowhere else to be found. No pirate version can be found, private bay or the likes. At least for now, YouTube is a gain in preserving and distributing old and unusual content, not a loss, in the world of classical music. I don't know what happens it one day it ceases to exist, but I imagine enough people would have saved copies of those videos to re-upload to whatever video site replaces YouTube.