How to Keep Online Videos Before They’re Removed
We live in an age where more and more culture is technically ‘available’, but only for as long as a platform, rights holder, or billionaire owner decides it should be. That is the problem with trusting huge tech companies to preserve anything. Their priority is not art, history, horror fandom, forgotten documentaries, or half-remembered programmes. Their only priority is profit and control. Whatever keeps the shareholders happy this quarter. The billionaire class are not responsible custodians of culture. They are not librarians nor archivists. They are effectively landlords – and they can change the locks whenever they like. We have...
