i should add that i have heard there are some archive.org enthusiasts working on a script to automatically fetch "CC" licensed videos from youtube and upload them to archive.org - that to me, has the form of an actual solution - but mostly what i see is everyone bending over backward to preserve their reliance on this 3rd-party commercial service - if only half the attention were given to moving to freely licensed video to the archive then the FOSS community could simply forget about youtube-dl, avideo, minitube and the like - such tools are bandage-patch solutions at best; but worse, they facilitate the downloading of videos that are not licensed for downloading
if all freely licensed video could be easily transfered from youtube to archive.org then the only motivation for end-users to continue using youtube-dl, avideo, minitube and the like would be to violate copyrights - and to be clear, this entire fuss is only over some unlicensed javascript that youtube serves - so personally i would find it quite hypocritical to be so offended by running a bit of unlicensed javascript (with the permission of the publisher - btw) while the primary activity is downloading copyrighted videos without the permission of the publisher i would hope that folks would keep this in mind when reading the massive amount of discussion that surrounds the use of these tools and realize that ANY real solution will necessarily entail NOT using proprietary services that hide their valued content behind a wall of javascript - anything less only encourages reliance on 3rd-party proprietary services and this should really not even be suggested on this list
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