The original video was at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk The Wayback Machine archives YouTube videos

The original video was at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk The Wayback Machine archives YouTube videos. I don't know how it archives or determines which videos to archive, but it has a surprising number of popular videos (but also ones with only a few thousand views and not some of those with billions, possibly because they're so high-profile due to copyright?). It also archives the video only once (creators may alter videos slightly, IIRC) and not always with the highest-quality format (possibly due an underlying problem with youtube-dl's `best` option). YouTube is special-cased with processing to replace the player on the archived video page with the archived video (which is indexed with a mangled googlevideo.com URL, the same type as retrieved by youtube-dl), but this doesn't always work. Fortunately, archived videos can also be accessed directly by video ID through the (very undocumented) WB Machine-specific 'fake' URL: http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<ID> http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<ID> The video in question is at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/wKbU8B-QVZk https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive... Edit: A very early reupload (2007-10-28, compared to the original video's 2007-07-13) is still up at _X6VoFBCE9k, but is of degraded quality and has an additional watermark.