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Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by afpx on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:14PM (#50383887)
I'm sorry, but that's a terrible perspective. Just in the last few months, I've run into issues in finding original texts for archaeological records from Iran and Iraq site digs from the 19th century. The archaeologists published books with artifact photographs, but it's extremely difficult to find the books because they're out of print. Because of wars and looting, many of the physical sites and structures are gone. Hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been looted. There used to be web sites that also had the images, but those sites are now gone. The sites have also been removed from archive.org. Luckily on Anna's Archive, I found a digital scan of one of the books, but it's partially corrupted. There is serious money being spent by powerful people to erase history. I can't see how anyone would be ok with that.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by settsu on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:36PM (#50384146)
I thought it was obvious enough that that's an entirely different thing: personal accumulation vs preservation of human knowledge.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by afpx on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:43PM (#50384228)
Who do you think is preserving human knowledge? I used that as an example because the people involved are long gone, and universities and governments no longer seem to care enough to preserve it.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by marcta on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#50384762)
One man's personal accumulation is another man's human knowledge.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by Barrin92 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:43PM (#50387101)
There's a difference between data and knowledge. Knowledge is what's extracted and made intelligible from data. Production and storage of knowledge was so expensive and scarce that if you find something from Iraq 3000 years ago there's a high likelihood there'll be some knowledge in there.

Most stuff produced today is not only not knowledge, as of now the majority may not even be human. If you're living in the metaphorical Wall-E garbage mountain filtering and disposal are much more important skills than accumulation

Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by settsu on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:41PM (#50395600)
Guess I was wrong.
Re:Download your favourite YouTube videos by jamesfinlayson on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:14AM (#50388481)
> The archaeologists published books with artifact photographs, but it's extremely difficult to find the books because they're out of print.

Oof, this so much - I've tracked down some early and mid 20th century books about a hobby and that was tough and expensive.