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What other sites are willing to store and easily distribute years of HD video for free?

• squarefoot 5y ago
  They wrote about losing a deep, years-long archive of video clips. That sounds a lot like they had no backups, not just losing the published ones.
  • ceejayoz 5y ago
    That's not actually what they said. > While Right Wing Watch had essentially moved away from regularly posting its videos to YouTube over the past year, as Mantyla noted, the deletion of the site’s channel erases a deep, years-long archive of video clips—effectively eliminating a resource for understanding and exposing right-wing extremism. Nothing in here says "we lost our only copies of the videos", just that the resource is now gone from the Internet, and that users currently can't get at it.
    • squarefoot 5y ago
      What prevents them from uploading the videos to a different service like Vimeo, Odysee, Archive.org etc. then? They could create a new YT account with the sole purpose of sending people to a video hosted elsewhere. A bit cumbersome, but better than nothing, and would force YT to prohibit links in YT descriptions, which would be anti-competitive.
      • ceejayoz 5y ago
        They could, but it looks like waiting a few hours did the trick. https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840 https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840
      • wilg 5y ago
        They do host them elsewhere, because of issues with YouTube moderation. https://vimeo.com/user5657100 https://vimeo.com/user5657100