wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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    They tried to yoink the youtube-dl source a year or so ago with a DMCA claim. Ultimately it was restored because archivists and historians are actually using it for archival purposes and Google would look like jerks if they pushed too hard against that. I think they hate it but aren’t in a position to come for it yet.

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      1 year ago

      I’m glad that their are contemporary historians and archivists perusing YouTube so my great-great-great-great grandchildren can watch a video game review in which a grown man gets shit on by Bugs Bunny.

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        As a person who studied history… it’s better for future historians to have more garbage to wade through than less. Some future historian might make their PhD proving something weird about our time based on three frames in the bugs bunny poop review.