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> you are not disappeared -- just be the mere fact of you being able to post this

Exactly. So YouTube no longer has his shows. Doesn't he have his own copies? Can't he post them wherever he wants?

So many people use YouTube as their archive - particularly if they're naive about their relationship with YouTube. He may not have his own copies.

This doesn't necessarily imply total naivety - plenty of journalists would be used to it being the publisher's role to archive the work, not their own.

As a content producer it’s baffling to me when people don’t have local backups of exports and original media. Storage has never been cheaper. 3-2-1 is so easy to implement.

YouTube isn't the publisher in this case: RT is. I would be extremely surprised if they don't have their own copies.

Man you’d be surprised at how bad in-house archiving can be. Especially if they’re working through freelancers.

They’ve probably got it somewhere

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