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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by ravenstine on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:09PM (#17340311)
People have a tendency to misundertand everything I do, so I'd rather not get into specifics, but in summary:

- Intellectual discussions

- Fan made instrumentals and remixes (especially for Rammstein)

- Found footage, old shows, and other nostalgic material from VHS tapes. (wouldn't surprise me if they get flagged for having Folgers commercials from 1993)

- Random funny videos with swearing or vulgar language

Not a whole lot of things that are likely to be relevant to most people, but I've a culture of my own and I'd like to preserve that. To forever lose something I enjoy means losing a bit of myself and not being able to share that with others.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by jlykins on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:58PM (#17341980)
I've been thinking a lot lately about how various small internet subcultures and communities that I've been a part of have been lost to the void. It's one of those things that makes me a special kind of sad and nostalgic.

Would you be at all interested in software that helps to construct a permanent showcase of the stuff that matters to you? It would handle things like archiving to enable a focus on curation and presentation.

I've been thinking of making something like this because services like the internet archive don't seem quite right. There's no context. I just worry that nobody would be interested in doing the work of providing that context.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by ravenstine on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:08AM (#17346201)
Yeah, I'd definitely be interested in seeing something like that.
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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by nkrisc on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:59PM (#17341206)
That definitely seems like the kind of content that would end up getting removed, but ironically is the kind of the content that services like YouTube grew up on.
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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by thinkingemote on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @04:34AM (#17344726)
How do you back up these? Just to a drive on your PC? To a network drive / server etc?

And what software do you use? Streamlink?

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by ravenstine on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:06AM (#17346184)
I have a hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi with Samba installed. Samba is terribly slow, so I just ended up bypassing that and installing youtube-dl directly on the Raspberry Pi. I'd like to find a more robust solution, but for now that works.

Streamlink looks like a great project. Thanks for mentioning it!

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