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by BoxOfRain·5y ago·view on hn ↗
>Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines"

This is why I'm keeping an offline digital music collection for the first time in over a decade, it's because I'm sick of this kind of behaviour from record labels. Their attitudes of deleting things on a whim as though they never existed pissed me off to the point I don't see streaming services as a viable means of keeping my music any more.

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The MPA/RIAA are one of the greatest threats to the internet in general right now. They are constantly pushing for more and more power, making greater and greater demands of ISPs and hosting companies.

Even now that a global pandemic has demonstrated how essential internet access has become to our lives courts seem quite happy to insist that ISPs permanently ban people based on nothing more than unsubstantiated claims of copyright infringement.

They've turned the DMCA into an alternative revenue stream where they can shake down people (both the innocent and the naive) who are forced to hand over settlement money for protection because they most often couldn't afford an attorney for advice let alone afford one for a long battle against media giants in courts that have increasingly become pay to win.

It's frightening how much they've managed to get away with already. I used to worry about how much of our culture they were taking from us, now I worry about them taking things much more fundamental.

Yes, this sort of thing has made me quite the data hoarder. It began as a way to save bandwidth for YouTube videos I wanted to watch repeatedly but after I noticed the number of holes in my "liked videos" list I started saving everything I found worthy. Huge swaths of content are being deleted every day. Not only copyright threats but also people who've decided they don't like their old content anymore and therefore nobody should be able to see it. A goodly chunk of my formative years would be lost to me if I didn't have my archive.