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With everything going on over at YouTube, what is everyone using as their backup solution?
I’m using TubeArchivist to maintain this VERY large collection.
No offense, but I don’t get it.
One could safeguard thousands of movies, song, art of any kind, that might disappear because some of it becomes lost media. Instead some prefer to backup content made for an ad platform.
I genuinely want to know what these 1m are about
I think independent media has the biggest potential of becoming “lost media”. With potential no other copies of this media accessible online, I find it increasingly important to have this backed up.
You’ll always be able to find a copy of Forrest Gump online, but go through your liked videos on YT and see how many are lost forever.
This is a big part of it IMO. Even ‘streaming exclusive’ stuff that see’s no physical release gets pirated enmass so many copies exist. Few people copy YouTube content however, since it’s already online, free, and easily accessible. …Until the day it’s not accessible of course.
One could safeguard thousands of movies, song, art of any kind, that might disappear because some of it becomes lost media. Instead some prefer to backup content made for an ad platform.
Let’s be clear here, movies, songs, and most art are also vehicles to serve you ads or generate admission/purchase revenue off the consumer. Like you criticize YouTube for being an ‘Ad Platform’ but elevate ‘Songs’ as if you’ve never heard of a radio station?
Funny enough, most films, music and other content are much better protected from being lost. They are mass produced, mass released, and have many many many pirated copies not to mention retail physical copies. YouTube on the other hand? People take for granted that it’s there, online, easy to access from anything, and much of it doesn’t easily have redundant copies on the internet so it vanishes in a flash when removed from YouTube.