a TorrentFreak article got me spooked so I fired up the ol’ yt-dlp. Got the entire channel, including comments, description metadata, and thumbnail images.

A significant number of videos were actually unavailable because of an odd YouTube bug where 15+ year old videos were listed as “currently being processed”. I may re-run this later (since I ran it in archive file mode) to get the missing videos, as it seems there may be about 300 out of 4911 videos missing.

    • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      Nah. IA doesn’t need to deal with this volume of shit and they already have enough of a hard time dealing with copyright trolls.

      If this channel is impacted in the future, I’ll probably put out a few torrents with the videos and post them here.

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      1 year ago

      As if they’re not having enough trouble with hosting “questionable” content! You obviously didn’t read the torrentfreak article making the rounds.

      Internet Archive != the Pirate Bay.

      For now, DON’T contaminate the IA with the Classic Chicago Television channel.