The thing that pissed me off was that I had uploaded so many indie local bands' CDs, none of which were ever on YouTube, so I lost more than half of my music library when they forced that change and there was nothing I could do about it, having long since gotten rid of the disks because I believed them that they would never delete my stuff.

(Degoogled not long after that, actually. Fool me twice...)

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jeffbee 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I am not sure what you mean here. I just checked my uploads and all my live music stuff is still there, as well as obscure published records.

	▲	smeej 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I had CDs from all my high school friends' dumb little bands. All gone. I don't care that nobody else on YouTube would ever have wanted to hear them. I don't even really care that the band members themselves would probably be embarrassed that I still had a copy. The point of buying the disk (and uploading it in the first place) was so that I word continue to have access to it.