Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history
by cabalamat on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @11:50AM
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> Does YouTube have any incentive to “preserve” anything once it costs them more money than it brings in?
They clearly have little incentive to do so.
If there was a law that prevented websites from using technical or legal means to stop people scraping user-generated content, then I would agree that YouTube has not such obligation.
But since they make it hard for people to make archives of their content, then I think they do have a moral obligation to keep it up.
They clearly have little incentive to do so.
If there was a law that prevented websites from using technical or legal means to stop people scraping user-generated content, then I would agree that YouTube has not such obligation.
But since they make it hard for people to make archives of their content, then I think they do have a moral obligation to keep it up.