Post by badcafe on Jul 31, 2022 8:00:22 GMT
Why?
They say that the internet never forgets, but the existence of this website proves that statement to be a huge lie. Sometimes media is even found then lost then found again. Ideally that scenario would never happen, so how do we try to better prevent it from happening?
Well, you've read the title. Seeing links to found media on Youtube just makes me nervous. It runs a high risk of being taken down, rightly so or not. We've all heard creators talk about how garbage Youtube's copyright claiming system is. Google Drive and Mega aren't much better. Those links are only good as long as the account is up, and we're playing the long game here.
How?
There are a few different locations on an article where the link to the found media itself may be found. It could be a video embedded in the gallery, or in the external links. There may be multiple parts in either of these cases too. I think downloading it manually might be the best option, because someone would likely have to correct the mistakes of an automated mass-download anyway.
To keep track of which media has been archived, we could use a shared spreadsheet. This is just my idea of what we'd have to keep track of, I'd love to hear any suggestions for improvement. Also my criticism of Google still applies to this spreadsheet, but I think it would be an okay platform as long as regular backups were made.
I'm not adamant that we keep it organized this way, but if anyone wants to add to this spreadsheet then by all means send a request to edit!
