> The tech can exist. I urge you to (a) think about a long-term solution, and then (b) devote years of your life to making it a reality.

So a few ideas...

1) YouTube alternatives already exist (Libry, PeerTube, DTube, etc.)

2) It should be possible to clone as much content from YouTube as possible using the last version of YouTube-DL while it still works

3) We can migrate the content off a platform that wishes to make it impossible to share and remix work and put it on a decentralized model that does. Even better are platforms which allow you to download it directly without the need for hack tools.

I think the future is simply getting enough people to use the existing alternatives and contribute to them.