youtube vs webarchive vs linkrot

sufi

sufi

lala
a few years ago i sent thousands of yt links from here to webarchive to copy

i noticed that linkrot has started to mess up the sudan thread so i've been sending some more linkys to https://web.archive.org/save/ so at least they won't disappear completely if the groom decides they don't want their wedding video online for our enjoyment any more

do some!
then tell us which ones you did
 
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Murphy

Murphy

cat malogen
it’s the only frustrating element to mining old threads - YouTube links for audio or film, 404’s, journals, pieces on bust jpg’s, 0898’s

most of the time discussion flows and you can intuit certain picks, thankfully not every linked thread post has been carpet bombed but it illustrates the monopoly for key media

eg Discogs suffers from audio rot as it links titles and releases to YouTube vids directly, main reason for posting after searching as if something is hoovering up too many moments of genius and instead you’re left with ruptures, near misses and maybe next times

more content has been uploaded at this point of time than I ever thought possible first time online, it seems so archaic and idealistic looking back, a field for self-funded PhD’s to mine as archive/archaeological site with whatever can sustain its presence far longer than the lifetime of anyone reading this

did you put a cotd scrape together @sufi or is this fugue state a dementia finally come calling?
 
sufi

sufi

lala
wektor said:
ridiculous
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via https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/october

Copyright keepers just destroyed a huge digital library​

From September 20 by David Moscrop

The pandemic-era National Emergency Library (NEL), an Internet Archive (IA) program, suffered a major blow after an appeals court ruled that the lending practices of the NEL were in violation of copyright law. Under the NEL program, more library users checked out digital copies than were permitted under the Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology confining these materials. Following an intense legal battle between the IA and a coalition of large publishers, the IA was ultimately forced to remove over five hundred thousand books from the NEL. The IA isn't giving up yet, but it's going up against a massive hydra and could use your help to restore public access to the books that were taken, as well as preserve and distribute information far into the future. To learn more about DRM, visit https://defectivebydesign.org.
 
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