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If you’re comfortable in the terminal the following works great for archiving: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
I had issues with youtube severely capping my download speeds using youtube-dl, but had success with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
It's probably time to start saving the videos you like if you haven't already. I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time. Some of my favourite songs with 10s of millions of views have been taken down. Many niche videos don't get reuploaded. No guarentees that youtube will keep your unique or exclusive videos publicly ava…
>I still remember when Key and Peele's whole catalog (or a lot of it) was available on youtube back in 2015-2016. For a brief window of time. Is there a lot of stuff missing on Comedy Central? I've discovered them on Youtube(I'm european), it seems like there is a tooon of content from them, is it just a small part of what they did?
Twitter used to provide all Tweets to the Library of Congress for archival, until the library decided it wasn't worth the effort to continue adding that much data. I'm not sure who would be in a position to archive YouTube for the future. Does the Internet Archive make snapshots?
Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
http://www.autonomoussystem.net/2013/07/youtube-slowness.htm...
Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
As of 2013, I calculated the YouTube catalog is ~375PB. It's probably closer to 1EB now, if not 2-5x that much. http://www.autonomoussystem.net/2013/07/youtube-slowness.htm...
Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
Twitter used to provide all Tweets to the Library of Congress for archival, until the library decided it wasn't worth the effort to continue adding that much data. I'm not sure who would be in a position to archive YouTube for the future. Does the Internet Archive make snapshots?
Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).
But what could those criteria be?
You can't just select out all those fast-talking "influencers" that shill and lie their way through hours worth of video just because they're shit, because sometimes those videos have thousands of people that DO like them, making them perhaps interesting to a sociologist 300 years from now.
2000-year old Roman shopping lists, personal letters and obscene graffiti are intensely interesting to historians now, but would have been worthless to their owners even a couple of days later.