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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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150TB, 1 Million Videos, YouTube Collection (alien.top)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.