My real worry with Google’s voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.
Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.
There’s countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.
So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?
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@tomjennings @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology then there’s just the massive history of music, live performances, both official and unofficial, even phone recordings, local/unknown bands, demos, etc., that will likely be lost in purges in the future… I still can’t really find many of the old (very poor) phone recordings and lofi recordings of metal bands from the early 00’s to early 10’s that I knew… A lot of artists are starting to come around to digital distribution and upload old stuff, but… then there’s just the absurd amount of defunct/dead bands (that admittedly no one cares about)