a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.

A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
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    1 year ago

    They still happily exist on YouTube- for now. So no point in re-hosting, they’ll get squirreled away into the Giant Hard Drive of Doom.

    If something happens to the actual archive project in the near future, I’ll likely section them up into 20gb pieces and post them out on a torrent someplace.

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        1 year ago

        As if they’re not having enough trouble with hosting “questionable” content! You obviously didn’t read the torrentfreak article making the rounds.

        Internet Archive != the Pirate Bay.

        For now, DON’T contaminate the IA with the Classic Chicago Television channel.

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        Nah. IA doesn’t need to deal with this volume of shit and they already have enough of a hard time dealing with copyright trolls.

        If this channel is impacted in the future, I’ll probably put out a few torrents with the videos and post them here.