> because otherwise when Google disappears I'll lose a lot of useful material I have access to at the moment.
Could you explain that ? Why would google disappear ?
Could you explain that ? Why would google disappear ?
Ultimately, I doubt that every piece of media that is currently on YouTube will be available for as long as I need them. That could be a year, or it could be fifty.
For my purposes, if a video gets taken down, it's lost forever, I probably won't be able to find it again.
But 'Guinea Pig Noises Loud Squeaking Sounds.mp4' lives on my hard-drive forever. ;)
I feel the same way about webpages really. wget -> it's mine until my hard-drive and all backups die. bookmark -> it's mine until my hard-drive and all backups die, PLUS the site goes down. Also immutable, which can be a bonus.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422763
It probably makes sense for me to formulate the argument properly and write it up at some point.
In this particular instance - I'm not sure that the amount paid is relevant - the desires of the publishers would be, which doesn't necessarily include payment (otherwise no-one would publish under GPL). It's potentially a violation of the ToS of YouTube - I wouldn't know, I use a commandline tool which bypasses the web interface entirely.
Sorry Google! I'm sure you'll do OK. (Do you have a donation address? :P)
And my views personally represent my own, not an organization, which is why I don't hide behind a dinosaur name :)
We'll have to agree to disagree. :)
Maybe you should switch to username non-sequitursaurus :)