Technology @lemmy.ml AJ Sadauskas @aus.social 9mo ago

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

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@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Then we will quickly learn which people were prudent enough to keep backups, and which were not.

#datahoard
- @AlexanderKingsbury @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology
  Agreed! It's an important point of redundancy. If it's worthy, should be stored and distrubuted even if the most popular way is unavailable (I say)
- @AlexanderKingsbury @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology With TransIP in NL there was once a free 1000GB of cloud storage on HDDs when they moved the paid accounts to SSDs.
  The agreement was Best effort, but for lost data they were not responsible as there would be no backups, unlike the paid accounts.
  
  Yes, there came a time when a disk crashed in the RAID, and then while rebuilding a 2nd disk crashed.....
  Yes, bye data.
  Apparently some people were upset that their data was lost....
  So, >2
  
  @AlexanderKingsbury @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology 2) as they also didn't have a good feeling at TransIP, they decided to cancel the free storage option.
  
  I just thought "You knew there would be no backup, so lost, was lost... You accepted that. Tough luck!"

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