I think you're reaching a little here. There are many, many things wrong with YouTube but just because someone found a hack on attempting to stop things from go

I think you're reaching a little here. There are many, many things wrong with YouTube but just because someone found a hack on attempting to stop things from going viral doesn't mean they are really to blame here. Also, YouTube is not the internet or the world's preservation archive of video. It's a massive tv station from a massive ad company. I can't imagine there won't be a time where YouTube doesn't start deleting videos that are uploaded to their service just because they are taking up storage. So let's not give YouTube that power.