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TV Museum Will Die in 48 Hours Unless Sony Retracts YouTube Copyright Strikes (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You'd be surprised to realize what a pain in the ass it is to host a good deal of videos. There's more lost content (shows, movies and commercials) combined than archived data that exists today. Media was simply not kept and storage written over. Sadly, we're going to keep losing it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I only managed to archive 1758 of the almost 4700 videos after reading this news yesterday. I hope someone else managed to download a bunch before the channel was removed today.

EDIT: Someone on Reddit managed to download it all and posted a torrent, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Data hoarders are legends

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bless you for trying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if you replied before I added my edit, but someone on Reddit downloaded it all and posted a torrent, for anyone interested.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Appreciate the follow-up, I didn't see it initially

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It depends on what you're trying to do. If you want a social media site based around videos with a variety of features with high traffic, then sure. If you're just archiving stuff for the sake of it, then you can simply host static content.

There are also many other places to store stuff than YouTube.