It's quite worrying. A sizeable chunk of cultural and educational material produced in the last decade is in control of greedy bastards who will never have enough. Unfortunately, downloading the video data is only part of it. Even if we shared it all on BitTorrent it's nowhere near as useful without the index and metadata.

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anal_reactor 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From the preservation point of view yes. But realistically, it's been the norm throughout human history that irrelevant culture simply gets removed.

	▲	eviks 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So is much of relevant culture, it's not like there is a magic preservation wand that sorts by relevance before removal

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crazygringo 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What are you talking about? It's in control of the creators. YT doesn't get exclusive copyright on user's content. Those creators can upload wherever they want.

And YT isn't "greedy bastards". They provide a valuable service, for free, that is extremely expensive to run. Do you think YT ought to be government-funded or a charity or something?

	▲	OGWhales 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Do you think YT ought to be government-funded Benn Jordan made a pretty compelling video on this topic, arguing that the existing copyright system and artifacts of it are actually not that great and a potential government system might actually be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJSTFzhs1O4 I will say that is something I would not have considered reasonable prior to watching his video.