There's a lot of important stuff on YouTube. Google doesn't really feel trustworthy enough to be in charge of it. What options do we have to ensure that people can still access that information or whatever if the degradation gets to a point where it's literally unusable? Is the internet archive sufficient? I feel like I should be participating somehow...
Do you get much value out of a youtube video the second time around? If I need to figure out which screws to remove or something like that, it's probably the first and last time I'll need that particular information.
If you're not also ensuring that others can access that copy then I don't really see the point.
Of the top of my head I can think of 5-10 youtube videos that have had such a profound effect on me, or I enjoyed so much, that I want them forever. This isn't counting for example videos like "how to remove a 2012 mazda 3 wheel bearing" that I have watched 4x over the last 10 years.
Like anyone else though... I won't put that into effect until it's too late, because I'm used to youtube "being there." Additionally, that's not my content to download. Even if I feel it's legally and ethically not google's....it certainly isn't legally mine.
The idea of asking individual youtubers for licenses to download their work, which by proxy is essentially Google's property, is too much for a well-meaning concious person to deal with. SO it's either youtube or uhhhhh another platform.
Just curious, could you share any memorable video(s) that you saved locally to rewatch?
I occasionally save audio, like a song or album, so I can listen without the browser, but rarely video. Last time I did that, it was a Czech animation series from the 1960's called Krtek (The Little Mole). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpaZrUayzSZmHWvtFR7n3...
Disney's FastPass, a complicated history -Defunctland: I've shown this one to many many people, K. Perjurer is great great great at storytelling, and the data/analytics behind the FastPass process may get you interested in Theme Parks.
The Ultimate Guide To Nuclear Weapons - HypotheticalHistory: He's a credited milblogger who can make a 5 hour video on the logistics of paperclip shipping.
All Miata Videos - Saveageeese: I own one and the docuseries is a wealth of knowledge, interviews with designers, etc.
PETSCOP: The darkest Game you can not play - Nexpo, just take a peek :p "wendigoon" is similar in that it's well reseeearched, well edited, long form content.
There is a youtuber named Bald and Bankrupt. He is a travel vlogger and I greatly enjoy his personality/exposure to the greater world. I've "folowed" him on some trips, IE India.
I more so do this because it's hard to remember/reflect on "profound youtube videos". I don't realllly ever go back and rewatch except maybe the Defunctland one, and it's easier to just go to the web.
I collect a lot of random demo videos from a lot of fields - every time I fancy honing one skill in particular, there's usually 5-10 videos in my collection that will give me something to work on.
> If you're not also ensuring that others can access that copy then I don't really see the point.
happy to share them if you can buy me a competent enough lawyer to run interference with the litigious copyright overlords.
