>YouTube is a private service funded by revenue that has to come from somewhere, we're not entitled to have it for free.
On what basis?
I'd go to a competitor, but there isn't one, due to YouTube's VC-funding-fuelled anticompetitive practices. I literally wish that private service funding never existed; I don't owe YouTube here.
If they don't earn money then they'll go bankrupt and open up room for someone else, which is an outcome I'm perfectly happy with.
My only concern is preserving videos between when YouTube goes down and a competitor comes up, because a lot of them are liable to disappear.
In fact, a lot of Youtube videos disappear anyway, so we ought to back them up regardless.
On what basis?
I'd go to a competitor, but there isn't one, due to YouTube's VC-funding-fuelled anticompetitive practices. I literally wish that private service funding never existed; I don't owe YouTube here.
If they don't earn money then they'll go bankrupt and open up room for someone else, which is an outcome I'm perfectly happy with.
My only concern is preserving videos between when YouTube goes down and a competitor comes up, because a lot of them are liable to disappear.
In fact, a lot of Youtube videos disappear anyway, so we ought to back them up regardless.